Giuseppe Amisani

Giuseppe Amisani was an Italian portrait painter of the Belle poque.

Amisani was born onDecember 1881 in Piazza Mercato in the comune of Mede di Lomellina, near Pavia in Lombardy, northern Italy. He studied at the technical institute of Pavia, where he failed the technical drawing course he then studied at the Accademia di Brera in Milan under Cesare Tallone and Vespasiano Bignami. He won the Mylius prize of the Academy for his painting lEroe in 1908, and in 1911208 or 1912 won the Fumagalli prize for figurepainting with his portrait of Lyda Borelli. From then on he concentrated almost exclusively on portraitpainting his landscapes of the Italian Alps, of Rhodes and of Tunisia also attracted interest.

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