ARTIST: Cleto Luzzi (Italian, 1884 - 1952)
TITLE: A Mishap at Tea Time
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board.
CONDITION: Minor craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings.
ART SIZE: 39 x 53 inches / 99 x 134 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Cleto Luzzi belongs to that still large category of artists who lived between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who fell into oblivion and forgotten by critics. This assumption appears in some ways paradoxical if we consider that, during his career, Luzzi not only managed to earn important commissions and awards but, from 1929 to 1932, he had the privilege of becoming the official painter of the King of Siam.Trained in direct contact with the late nineteenth-century academic culture, Luzzi studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Rome under the guidance of two exceptional masters: Francesco Jacovacci and Giulio Aristide Sartorio.From the first he received a certain indulgence towards sketching, clearly visible, for example, in the youthful "genre" paintings and watercolors set in the more affectionate and Rococo eighteenth century. From Sartorio, however, he learned the techniques necessary for the correct execution of monumental decorative art, a sector that Luzzi frequented often and with considerable success.He soon specialized in the decoration of cult buildings in the capital, in 1914 he frescoed the church of San Nicola de '?Prefetti adopting a correct, but not very original, classicism. Although gifted with considerable talent, Cleto Luzzi was soon, unjustly, forgotten. After his death, a series of retrospective exhibitions (organized in 1956 at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome and the Collegio Nazareno, in 1958 at the Circolo di Forestieri in Sorrento) were not enough to keep the painter's name in vogue.