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Luigi Crosio

Luigi Crosio (1835 - 1916) was active/lived in Italy.  Luigi Crosio is known for Genre, period paintings, prints.

Luigi Crosio Biography (Revised 2007)
The standard entry for Luigi Crosio in the art biographies when you can find it states that he was born in Alba in 1835 and died in Turin in 1915. However as so often happens oft repeated 'facts' can be simply repeated mistakes.  Luigi was actually born in Acqui Terme a beautiful spa town east of Turin.  The date of his death is also wrong.  A copy of his death certificate gives both his correct place of birth and reveals he died in Turin on the 15th of January 1916.  His address at the time was 106 Via Nizza.

He studied art at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arte Torino, in the 1850s still one of the main art schools in the Piedmont district. He was a talented professional and capable artist who made a respectable living out of his work.  He was deliberately commercial, painting what the people were prepared to pay for.  Crosio was not a cutting edge artist in the narrow way we understand today.  Art f   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7033 characters.]  Artist bio

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