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1863 Lucca, Italy - 1945 Lucca, Italy. Known for: Portrait and aristocratic genre painting.
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits... Read full biography
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early... Read full biography
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early maturity and the Realism of his maturity" (A.Tagliasacchi, Introduction to the exhibition catalogue Luigi De Servi, 1863-1945, Lucca 2001). The only internationally famous artist from Lucca, he had a... Read full biography
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early maturity and the Realism of his maturity" (A.Tagliasacchi, Introduction to the exhibition catalogue Luigi De Servi, 1863-1945, Lucca 2001). The only internationally famous artist from Lucca, he had a sparkling, cosmopolitan personality. A collector, antiquarian and aesthete, De Servi worked untiringly between Lucca and Buenos Aires, Paris and London and Genoa, finally returning to his town of birth. The first time he went to Argentina was in... Read full biography
The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early maturity and the Realism of his maturity" (A.Tagliasacchi, Introduction to the exhibition catalogue Luigi De Servi, 1863-1945, Lucca 2001). The only internationally famous artist from Lucca, he had a sparkling, cosmopolitan personality. A collector, antiquarian and aesthete, De Servi worked untiringly between Lucca and Buenos Aires, Paris and London and Genoa, finally returning to his town of birth. The first time he went to Argentina was in 1883. In the space of a few months De Servi established himself as a portrait artist, gaining commissions from families from the r... Read full biography
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The son of an artist father, Pietro, who painted religious works, Luigi De Servi was "an artist who depicted the drawing room, upper middle class patronage, series of family portraits and portraits of famous people, moving from the Classical style of his early works to the Romanticism of his early maturity and the Realism of his maturity" (A.Tagliasacchi, Introduction to the exhibition catalogue Luigi De Servi, 1863-1945, Lucca 2001).
The only internationally famous artist from Lucca, he had a sparkling, cosmopolitan personality. A collector, antiquarian and aesthete, De Servi worked untiringly between Lucca and Buenos Aires, Paris and London and Genoa, finally returning to his town of birth. The first time he went to Arg...But wait, there's more...
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