ARTIST: Stefano Donadoni (Italian, 1844 - 1911)
NAME: The Forum, Rome
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
CONDITION: Few tears to edges (biggest 2.5"). Some damages to corners. Few faint stains. Minor age toning.
SIGHT SIZE: 11 x 15 1/2 inches / 28 x 39 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed
SIGNATURE: Lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 116192
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Stefano Donadoni (Italian, 1844 - 1911)
Born on 1 October 1844 in the area of ​​Bergamo. He began his artistic training at the school of Andrea Marenzi, Academy painter and disciple of P. Ronzoni. Another painter of Bergamo, Costantino Rosa, naturalist, seems to have influenced at least the first activity period Donadoni. He participated in 1881 with some success at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan with three very realistic works: ancient Bergamo, Chevrier and the Pallazo della Ragione. With his wife Angelica Hills Alexander and Elizabeth and children, Donadoni leaves to settle in Rome 1882. He then participated in 1883 in the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome with three works: The church of San Salvatore Church San Maria Maggiore and the Colleoni chapel in Bergamo. Most of the works of the vast production Donadoni are kept in the Palazzo Braschi and Grafica Cabinetto Rome. In the first institution are preserved about 400 watercolors with great fidelity the great monuments of the city and carried out between 1891 and 1911. Donadoni died in Rome on February 4, 1911. In 1924, will be held at Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome exhibition retrospective of his oils and watercolors. Donadoni was an artist able to insert the most typical secular buildings of Bergamo and Rome in scenes of everyday life, helping to give his works a certain romantic aura borrows a sweet naivety, like this Arc Titus shown here. The triumphal arch was erected in Rome by the Emperor Domitian, brother of Titus, shortly after the latter's death on September 81 to commemorate the capture of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. The arc is then integrated into a fortress during the Middle Ages. This will in 1822 that it will be released the surrounding buildings and reconstructed by Italian architect Guiseppe Valadier.