Count Arnaldo Casella Tamburini, Jr. (January 24, 1885 - September 12, 1936) was an Italian artist who killed himself in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
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Biography
editHe was born in Florence, Italy on January 24, 1885, to Arnaldo Casella Tamburini, Sr.
He killed himself on September 12, 1936, in Chicago, Illinois when he jumped from a second story window at St. Luke's Hospital where he had been hospitalized for mental illness.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Arnaldo Casella Tamburini". AskArt. Retrieved 2015-03-20.
- ^ "Hospital Jump Fatal To Count Tamburini. Portrait Painter, 51, a Friend of Mussolini, Had Been Under Care as a Mental Case". The New York Times. September 13, 1936. Retrieved 2015-03-20.