Filippo (Felipe) Baratti - Artist Info

About Filippo (Felipe) Baratti

  • Biography

    Filippo Baratti was born in Trieste, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Little is known of his early years, however in 1868 he was exhibiting at the Esposizione di Belle Arte in Milan. Baratti then moved to Turin, where he exhibited at the Società Promatirice di Belle Arte 1869-1872.

    Baratti was very much an Orientalist painter, although also painting occasional landscapes, society genre subjects and of course city views. The rise in interest throughout Europe for the Romantic and exotic subjects of North Africa and the Ottoman Empire was inspired by the likes of Delacroix and subsequently Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904). Baratti's Orientalist subjects set amidst the Moorish architecture of Grana...

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