Carlo Balestrini
Carlo Balestrini (March 24, 1868 – February 10, 1922) was an Italian painter.[1] His best-known works are Impressionist landscapes with animals, specially horses.[2]
Biography
Born to a wealthy family in Albese near Milan, Carlo Balestrino studied at the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Bertini.
Among his works are: Cavallanti di ritorno; Paesaggio (1900, Milan mostra dell’Ottocento Lombardo); Abel (symbolist work which gained the premio Gavazzi prize at the 1897 Triennale of Milan);[3] Portrait of Emilia Rizzi vedova Daccò;[4] La calata della neve (1905, Biennale of Venice); Impressione invernale - Darsena di Milano (1906, National Exposition of Milan); Il “Porto di Milano” - Effetto di neve (1914, Biennale of Venice); Le slitte (1908, Brera); Stalla di vacche alla fattoria (1910, National Exposition of Milan).[5] Balestrini also painted for the parish church of Santo Redentore and San Francesco of Cortenuova.[6]
The author Erminia Mimma Viganò has published a novel titled “Note nell’aria”, whose protagonist's life intersects with that of the painter.[7]
References
- ↑ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 181.
- ↑ Online museum of the artistic patrimony of the Hospital of Varese, short biography.
- ↑ Lombardia Beni Culturali Painting of Abel, now at Museum of Como.
- ↑ Online Museum of Hospital of Varese
- ↑ Istituto Matteucci short biography.
- ↑ Article of Viganò novel.
- ↑ Casate online article.