Tommaso Cascella senior (1890–1968) was an Italian painter, known for brightly colored landscapes.[1]

Biography edit

He was born in Ortona in the Abruzzo. He trained in the Liceo Artistico of Giuseppe Misticoni.[2] His father Basilio and his younger siblings Michele (1907–1941) and Gioacchino were all painters. Tommaso traveled to Paris in 1909.[3] Their house in Pescara is now the Museo Basilio Cascella.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ "Pescara e Gabriele D'Annunzio". Pescara, Zazzetta. 1904.
  2. ^ Tommaso Cascella: Con Gabriele d'Annunzio a Parigi nel 1914: come venni liberato dal carcere e dalla fucilazione, Pescara 1963
  3. ^ Giusto, Pino. "Guida rapida alla Cattedrale Basilica di San Tommaso apostolo". BASILICA - CATTEDRALE SAN TOMMASO APOSTOLO IN ORTONA (in Italian).
  4. ^ TOMMASO CASCELLA. IL PERCORSO DI UNA VITA (1890–1968); 2009 exhibition at Fondazione Paparella-Treccia, Pescara; curated by Giovanbattista Benedicenti and Vincenzo De Pompeis.