Carlo Servolini

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| birth_date = 5 April 1876

| birth_place = Livorno, Kingdom of Italy

| nationality = Italian

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| training = Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze

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| death_date = 12 September 1948

| death_place = Collesalvetti, Italian Republic

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Carlo Servolini (5 April 1876 – 12 September 1948) was an Italian artist from Livorno, in Tuscany. He worked in oils, water-colour, etching and lithography. He was the father of the wood engraver {{Interlanguage link multi|Luigi Servolini|it}}.{{r|silvana}}

Servolini was born in Livorno on 5 April 1876.{{r|ben}} He studied in Florence at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and at the Scuola Professionale di Arti Decorative e Industriali (now the {{Interlanguage link multi|Liceo Artistico di Porta Romana|it|3=Istituto statale d'arte di Firenze}}), where he qualified as a teacher of drawing.{{r|cat|page=146}} He received help and advice from Guglielmo Micheli, a pupil of Giovanni Fattori, but did not become an imitator of the Macchiaiolo style.{{r|ben}}

He exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia in 1936, 1940 and 1942; his work was shown in Argentina, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.{{r|silvana}}

Servolini died at Collesalvetti, in the province of Livorno, on 12 September 1948.{{r|ben}} In 2006, the comune of Collesalvetti established the Pinacoteca Comunale Carlo Servolini, a public gallery which houses works by Servolini and his Tuscan contemporaries, and also stages temporary exhibitions.{{r|grasso|comune}}

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[http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/benezit/B00168019 Servolini, Carlo]. Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed March 2016. {{subscription required}}

Francesco Tetro (editor) (2000). [https://books.google.com/books?id=1IVOAAAAYAAJ Galleria d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Latina: catalogo generale, Volume 2] (in Italian). [Latina]: Il Gabbiano.

[http://www.comune.collesalvetti.li.it/site/home/argomenti/pinacoteca-comunale-c.-servolini.html Pinacoteca Comunale C. Servolini] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305185220/http://www.comune.collesalvetti.li.it/site/home/argomenti/pinacoteca-comunale-c.-servolini.html# |date=5 March 2016 }} (in Italian). Comune di Collesalvetti. Accessed March 2016.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20160307135725/http://www.silvanaeditoriale.it/catalogo/prodotto.asp?id=2027 Carlo Servolini: 1876-1948 dipinti, acquarelli, incisioni] (catalogue listing, in Italian). Milan: Silvana Editoriale. Archived March 2016.

Cristiana Grasso (6 April 2012). [http://ricerca.gelocal.it/iltirreno/archivio/iltirreno/2012/04/06/NZ_34_02.html Viaggio tra i tesori della pinacoteca Carlo Servolini] (in Italian). Il Tirreno. Accessed March 2016.

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Carlo Servolini

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