Silvio Poma
Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, 1840 - Turate, 21 October 1932) was an Italian painter.
| Silvio Poma | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1840 Trescore Balneario, Italy |
| Died | 1932 Turate |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Field | Painting |
Biography
He participates as a volunteer in the II War of Independence and, later, he embarks on military life, but in 1866 he takes leave of the army after contracting malaria. On his return to Milan he attended the studios of Giovan Battista Lelli and Gerolamo Induno, both painter-soldiers with whom he had come into contact during the military campaign of 1859 . He made his debut at the Fine Arts Exhibition of Brera in 1869, but the first official awards came only in the middle of the following decade: in 1876 he won the Mylius prize of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera with a canvas of historical subject set in a large natural context of romantic taste entitled Macbeth meets in the Dunscinane wood the massacres that predict his throne;[1] in 1877 one of his landscapes was purchased at the National Exhibition of Naples by Vittorio Emanuele II. He was buried in the Cimitero Maggiore di Milano, where his remains were later collected in a cell.
The public purchase by King Vittorio Emanuele II for his private collection will give him international fame among the royal families of the era.
Museums
- Galleries of Piazza Scala, Milan
- Royal Museum of the House of Savoy
Exhibition
- Fine Arts Exhibition of Brera Academy, 1881
- National Exhibition of Milan of 1883
- Rome Exhibition of 1883
- Turin Exhibition of 1884
- National Exhibition of Milan of 1886
- Venice Exhibition of 1887
- Bologna exhibition of 1888
- Bologna Exhibition of 1888, with Lierna's View of Bellagio (named as La Punta di Bellagio)
- Fine Arts Exhibition of Accademia di Brera, 1869
- National Exhibition of Naples, 1877
Silvio Poma Media
Lago di Como o Paesaggio Lacustre, 1890 ca. (Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo)
References
- Elena Lissoni, Silvio Poma Archived 2021-11-24 at the Wayback Machine, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).
Other projects
Media related to Silvio Poma at Wikimedia Commons