Michele Cortegiani
Boats at the tip in the port of Palermo
Boats at the tip in the port of Palermo
Michele Cortegiani (Palermo, February 8, 1857 - Tunis, January 26, 1919) was an Italian painter, mainly of seascapes of his native Sicily and later Tunisia, and of female portraits and genre subjects.
Biography
Some sources insist on the Neapolitan origins of the artist while confirming the purely Palermitan training. He was a pupil of Francesco Lojacono,, with whom he moved to Paris between 1877 and 1881. [2]
He collaborated in the decoration of the ceiling of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, alongside Luigi Di Giovanni and Ettore De Maria Bergler, under the direction of Rocco Lentini, 1893 - 1897. Lentini's idea for the ceiling was that of a large wheel with golden spokes contrasted with the blue background. Inside each ray, panels called petals, angels and female figures with musical instruments painted on canvas are depicted, while the allegory of the Triumph of Music is made in the grandiose central roundel.[3]
In 1902 he was called by the Italian community in Tunis who held him in great esteem and participated in fine arts exhibitions at the Salon Tunisien. Permanence characterized by a brilliant local career, a juncture during which he frescoed the city casino and the Théâtre Municipal, works unfortunately now covered by coats of mural paint. [4] [5]
In Sicily, together with Lojacono, De Maria Bergler, Michele Catti and other painters of their school, the group became known as the "masters of colour" because of the way they captured the light of Sicily's harbors and sleepy villages.[ 6]
The civil funeral as a Freemason took place on January 27, 1919 starting from the house at rue Es-Sadikia, 15 in Tunis.
Works
1882, In the port of Palermo, exhibited in Milan.
1884, Palermo.
1886, Aviary of Villa Giulia, painted.
1887, Portrait of Countess Sant, Malta.
1887, St. Joseph with Child, documented altarpiece in a church of St. Joseph of Malta.
1888, Grecale.
1890c., View of Palermo from Mezzomonreale.
1891c., Catacombs of the Capuchins, painting now lost. Work presented at the 1892 National Exhibition of Palermo.
1891, Phoenician walls of Erice, painted, Palazzo dei Normanni. Work presented at the 1892 National Exhibition of Palermo.
1891, Saint Joseph with the child, painted, work documented in the church of San Giuseppe dei Teatini in Palermo.
1893 - 1897, Cycle, frescoes made in collaboration with Rocco Lentini and Ettore De Maria Bergler, works present in the dome of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
1895, Beauty in satin and pearls.
1897, San Martino, Isola delle Femmine, Women in prayer, pastels, works exhibited in the Civic Gallery of Palermo.
1899 - 1900, Cycle, frescoes made in collaboration with Ettore De Maria Bergler and Rocco Lentini, in the rooms of the Grand Hòtel Villa Igiea in Palermo.
1900, Praying girls, Profile of a woman, pastels.
1901, Sleep, pastel, work presented at the Glaspalast Exhibition in Munich.
1902, Cycle, frescoes, works documented in the Casino and the Théâtre Municipal of Tunis.
?, Figure of a girl, pastel on paper.
?, Commoner with pins, oil on canvas, autograph.
?, Glimpse of the villa,
?, Cloister of the Cathedral of Monreale, oil on cardboard.
?, Tunisian.
?, street of Tunis.
?, Two ducks.
?, Nude woman.
?, Vue de Tunis.
?, Animation on a place in Tunisia.
?, Le café des Nattes in Sidi Bou Saïd.
?, Four orientalist scenes.
?, Portrait of a woman in ear rings ....
?, Coastal view.
?, Scene from rue animée in Tunis.
?, Arabes sous la porte de la ville, Tunis.
?, Marabout devant la baie, Djerba.
?, Devant la porte de la ville, Tunis.
?, Rue animated in Tunis.
?, Boat at the tip
?, Wooded landscape.
?, Road to Monreale, oil on canvas.
?, Zisa.
?, Crab fishing.
?, Boats at the tip in the Port of Palermo, oil on canvas, two paintings signed and dedicated to Gioacchino di Marzo.
References
Italian Ways, entry on Teatro Massimo.
Galleria Roma. entry on Cortegiani.
Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti, by Angelo De Gubernatis, Ugo Matini, page 143-144.
Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 585.
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