Edoardo Matania
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Edoardo or Eduardo Matania (1847 – 1929) was an Italian painter and illustrator, depicting detailed penciled portraits; and genre, patriotic and historic scenes.
Image:Eduardo Matania Beim Pfandleiher 1870s.jpg
Image:Matania Edoardo - I martiri di Belfiore, a Mantova - xilografia - 1887.jpg led to scaffold in Mantua (1870s)]]
History
He was born in Naples, and trained starting in 1862 at the Istituto di belle arti of Naples.[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/edoardo-matania_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ Encyclopedia Treccani], Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 72 (2008), entry by Rosalba Dinoia. He made a living mostly as an illustrator for the Bideri publishing house, and also worked with the editor Emilio Treves. He was attached to the School of Resina. For example, he illustrated a Storia del Risorgimento Italiano (1889) by Francesco Bertolini. Matania also illustrated an edition of Ariosto's La Gerusalemme liberata. He was one of the painters to decorate the ceilings of the Caffè Gambrinus of Naples.
Image:Eduardo Matania Beim Die geschlossene Bank 1870s.jpg
Others in his immediate family also became well known illustrators. His son, Fortunino Matania also became a well-known painter and illustrator.[http://digilander.libero.it/trombealvento/pimmagini/matania.htm Biographies of Matania family in Digilander]. Edoardo's nephew, Ugo Matania also became a well-known illustrator during World War I.
Gallery
Battaglia Varese 1859 Matania.jpg|Battle of Varese
Bronzetti Treponti Matania 1889.jpg|Death of Captain Narcisso Bronzetti at the Battle of Treponti
Morelli Silvati 1822 Matania 1889.jpg|Morelli and Silvati hanged after the failed uprising of 1820–1821 in Naples
Risorgimento Cilento.jpg|Arrest of Pasquale Rossi, brothers Donato, Domenico and Patrizio Capozzoli at Perito by forces of Ferdinand I
Rivarola 1826 Matania 1889.jpg|Attempted Murder by Carbonari of Cardinal Agostino Rivarola
Staffalo 1848 Matania 1888.jpg|Episode at Staffalo during Battle of Custoza (1848)
Generale medici (1887).jpg|General Giacomo Medici
Matania Edoardo - Ritratto di Nicotera - xilografia - 1887.jpg|Giovanni Nicotera
Matania Edoardo - Ritratto giovanile di Carlo Cattaneo - xilografia - 1887.jpg|Carlo Cattaneo
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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:20th-century Italian painters