Demetrio Cosola (9 September 1851 – 27 February 1895) was an Italian painter of Piedmontese verismo painting.
Demetrio Cosola | |
|---|---|
| Born | Demetrio Cosola 22 September 1851 San Sebastiano da Po, Italy |
| Died | 27 February 1895 (aged 43) Chivasso, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painter |
| Notable work | Il dettato (1891), La vaccinazione nelle campagne (1894), Dolori inattesi (1895) |
| Movement | Verismo |
| Patron(s) | Enrico Gamba, Andrea Gastaldi, Giovanni Tamone[1] |
Biography edit
Born in San Sebastiano da Po, he lived his entire life between Chivasso, where he moved with his family at the age of seven, and Turin.[1][2]
At the age of 18 he began attending the Accademia Albertina.[1][2][3] He studied under Enrico Gamba, Andrea Gastaldi, Giovanni Tamone, and became friends with another teacher, Antonio Fontanesi.[1]
In 1873, he began to exhibit, but initially without great success.[3]
In 1884, he returned to the Academy, as assistant teacher first to Gastaldi, then (after the latter's death in 1889) to Pier Celestino Gilardi.[1][3]
He died in February 1895 of pneumonia.[1]
Cosola was quite a prolific painter: despite his short life, there are about 200 landscapes, about 200 portraits and about a hundred paintings of other genres.[2] His favorite subjects were nature and the everyday life of ordinary people,[2][4] frequently including children.[5]
Among his major works, Al sole (In the Sun, 1884) was housed in the Royal Palace of Turin, but was destroyed by a fire in 1997; Il dettato (The Dictation Lesson, 1891) is housed in the Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art;[1][5] Dolori inattesi (Unexpected Sorrows, 1895) is in Chivasso, in a private collection;[1] La vaccinazione nelle campagne (The Vaccination in the Countryside, 1894) is also housed in Chivasso, in the Town Hall.[1][3][4]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Franca Dalmasso. "COSOLA, Demetrio" (in Italian). Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Demetrio Cosola" (in Italian). Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "Cosola Demetrio 1851 – 1895" (in Italian). Archived from the original on August 17, 2022. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ a b "A Torino la prima opera sui vaccini obbligatori" (in Italian). December 14, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2022.
- ^ a b "Il dettato di Demetrio Cosola" (in Italian). Retrieved August 25, 2022.
External links edit
Media related to Demetrio Cosola at Wikimedia Commons