1837 Campertogno - 1905 Borgosesia. Known for: Painting and sculpture.
Pier Celestino Gilardi was an Italian artist who was a pupil of Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He succeeded Gastaldi in the chair of painting in 1873. Gilardi participated in many...
Read full biography Pier Celestino Gilardi was an Italian artist who was a pupil of Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He succeeded Gastaldi in the chair of painting in 1873. Gilardi participated in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, mainly painting genre scenes with internal figures, but also...
Read full biography Pier Celestino Gilardi was an Italian artist who was a pupil of Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He succeeded Gastaldi in the chair of painting in 1873. Gilardi participated in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, mainly painting genre scenes with internal figures, but also landscapes and glimpses of the country. He demonstrated inventive and descriptive skills with pleasant analytical qualities in the reconstruction of the environments and a lot of humor and psychological...
Read full biography Pier Celestino Gilardi was an Italian artist who was a pupil of Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He succeeded Gastaldi in the chair of painting in 1873. Gilardi participated in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, mainly painting genre scenes with internal figures, but also landscapes and glimpses of the country. He demonstrated inventive and descriptive skills with pleasant analytical qualities in the reconstruction of the environments and a lot of humor and psychological depth at the same time in describing his subjects. He began his career with historical subjects, very fashionable at the time, to then orient his taste towards so-called gender themes. His Una lotto alla morra, which appeared at the 1874 London...
Read full biography Pier Celestino Gilardi was an Italian artist who was a pupil of Andrea Gastaldi at the Albertina Academy in Turin. He succeeded Gastaldi in the chair of painting in 1873. Gilardi participated in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, mainly painting genre scenes with internal figures, but also landscapes and glimpses of the country. He demonstrated inventive and descriptive skills with pleasant analytical qualities in the reconstruction of the environments and a lot of humor and psychological depth at the same time in describing his subjects. He began his career with historical subjects, very fashionable at the time, to then orient his taste towards so-called gender themes. His Una lotto alla morra, which appeared at the 1874 London International Exhibition, was bought in Turin by Vittorio Emanuele II.