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Giovanni Battista Crema

Giovanni Battista Crema (1883 - 1964) was active/lived in Italy.  Giovanni Crema is known for Female portrait, landscape and millitary theme painting, etching.

Giovanni Battista Crema was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1883 into a well-off family of solicitors. In order that the boy could follow in the footsteps of his family he was steered towards the study of Classics, however his father soon noticed the boy's love of painting and when he was fourteen he sent him for drawing lessons from the master Angelo Longanesi.  After two years of lessons, at the age of sixteen, Crema decided to move to Naples to enroll at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

At the Academy he had Domenico Morelli as a teacher who, together with Filippo Palazzi, started what was called the southern Italian school of painting.  They taught the study from nature as a means of transferring feelings onto canvas. However this exercise was not a mere reproduction of nature but a profound meditation of the artist's innermost thoughts, a reworking of their personal philosophy.

Crema stayed in Naples until 1901 and then he decided to go to the Accademia di Belle arti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4130 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Giovanni Battista Crema

   Giovanni Battista Crema  Born:  1883 - Ferrara, Italy
Died:   1964 - Rome, Italy
Known for:  Female portrait, landscape and millitary theme painting, etching

Giovanni Battista Crema was born in Ferrara, Italy in 1883 into a well-off family of solicitors. In order that the boy could follow in the footsteps of his family he was steered towards the study of Classics, however his father soon noticed the boy's love of painting and when he was fourteen he sent him for drawing lessons from the master Angelo Longanesi.  After two years of lessons, at the age of sixteen, Crema decided to move to Naples to enroll at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

At the Academy he had Domenico Morelli as a teacher who, together with Filippo Palazzi, started what was called the southern Italian school of painting.  They taught the study from nature as a means of transferring feelings onto canvas. However thi  ...  Displaying 750 of 4130 characters.

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