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3 unusual facts about Italian art


Eberhard Georg Friedrich von Wächter

He studied painting at Paris under Jean-Baptiste Regnault, Jacques-Louis David, and Antoine-Jean, Baron Gros, and later went to Rome, where he improved his French classical style of painting by the study of Italian art.

Italian Order of Merit for Culture and Art

The order has three classes, gold, silver and bronze, and may be awarded to men and women for contributions to Italian art, literature or culture.

Leandro Bassano

Leandro Bassano (June 10, 1557 – April 15, 1622), also called Leandro dal Ponte, was an Italian artist from Bassano del Grappa, the younger brother of Francesco Bassano the Younger and third son of Jacopo Bassano, who took their name from their town of Bassano del Grappa.


Joseph Forsyth

Forsyth had solaced his captivity by further study of Italian literature and art.


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Anna Ziaja

Her unique vision of contemporary art comes from her love of Italian art from Trecento to Cinquecento,from Masaccio to Vittore Carpaccio fused with her Polish heritage and paintings of Zygmunt Waliszewski and Eugeniusz Zak.

Bagnacavallo Madonna

In 1961 the Italian art historian Roberto Longhi recognized it as by Dürer, and, a few years later, the work was acquired by the collection currently owning it.

Cuniberti

Pirro Cuniberti, a prominent figure in post-Worldwar II Italian art.

Enrico Lombardi

In the same year he was invited by Vittorio Sgarbi to participate in the exhibition "Italian Art 1968/2007. Painting."

Ettore Modigliani

In 1930 Modigliani was appointed Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for the realization of the exhibition of Italian art at Burlington House in London.