Alessandro Milesi - The Port of Marghera

Features

Artist:  Alessandro Milesi (1856-1945)

Artwork title:  Il porto di Marghera

Age:  20th Century / 1901 - 2000

Subject:  Views/City Glimpses

Origin:  Italy

Artistic technique:  Painting

Technical specification:  Oil on Cardboard

Description : Il porto di Marghera

Oil on cardboard. Signed lower right. On the back there is a declaration of authenticity of the work written by hand by his daughter Antonietta Milesi, dated 1981. Also present stamp from a private collection. After a difficult childhood due to the indigence of his family, Alessandro Milesi at the age of thirteen enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, which he attended until 1873, with commendable commitment and results and obtaining various awards. At the end of 1873 the professor of figure drawing Napoleone Nani, who had already worked to make him work as a retoucher for a photographer, returned to Verona, called to direct the local Academy. M. followed him, and there, thanks to the help of the teacher, he obtained important commissions. Returning to Venice he devoted himself exclusively to painting: all his works of this early period, especially the genre scenes, are close to those of the most important Venetian genre painting master of those years, Gaetano Favretto, even in the choice of subjects, mainly sought after among the people, to respond to the growing interest in scenes of Venetian daily life on the part of both collectors and foreign artists. In particular, Milesi created numerous paintings which have as their theme the figure and family of the fisherman and the gondolier. He was also a valid portrait painter. In 1886 Milesi married Maria Ciardi, sister of his friend and painter Guglielmo Ciardi. In 1888 he participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale, and since then his presence has been constant at international and Italian shows and exhibitions. From 1895 he participated in all the Venetian Biennials until 1935, with the interval of the First World War in which he participated as a volunteer. Even if the most modern pictorial research and the avant-garde seemed to be decidedly oriented in another direction with respect to his work, Milesi had a great success with the public and in sales, marking the persistence of a certain collecting taste. Alessandro Milesi died in Venice in 1945. The proposed work depicts a glimpse of the port of Marghera, devoid of figures but lively and fervent with activity. It is presented in a frame.

Product Condition:
Product in good condition, with small signs of wear.

Frame Size (cm):
Height: 49
Width: 62
Depth: 4

Artwork dimensions (cm):
Height: 41
Width: 54