Giovanni Battista Crema
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{{Short description|Italian painter (1883–1964)}}
Giovanni Battista Crema (Ferrara, 1883 – Rome, 1964) was an Italian painter.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2M6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Giovanni+Battista+Crema%22+1964 | title=La Riviera ligure: Momenti di una rivista : Genova, Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure, 16 novembre-6 dicembre 1986| isbn=9788870581201| last1=Boero| first1=Pino| last2=Novaro| first2=Maria| last3=Biblioteca Comunale di Milano| year=1984}}
Biography
Crema was born in Ferrara in 1883.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QbfpAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Giovanni+battista+Crema%22++painter |title = Radical light: Italy's divisionist painters, 1891–1910|isbn = 9781857094091|last1 = Fraquelli|first1 = Simonetta|year = 2008}} In 1889 he moved to Naples to study under Michele Cammarano and Domenico Morelli at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples.{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E4pOAAAAYAAJ&q=giovanni+battista+crema+Michele+Cammarano |title = La collezione d'arte di Dexia Crediop: Dipinti, disegni e sculture dal XVI al XX secolo|last1 = Tosini|first1 = Patrizia|year = 2002|isbn = 9788884911773}}{{Cite web | url=http://www.sba.it/artisti-in-galleria/crema-giovanni-battista-biografia-quadri-in-vendita-valutazione-stima-perizia-certificata-di-dipinti-di-crema-giovanni-battista/ |title = Crema Giovanni Battista (1883–1964). Biografia. Quadri in vendita}} He then moved to Bologna to finish his studies. From 1903 to 1964 he lived in Rome.{{Cite web | url=https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/266765 |title = Ontdek schilder, illustrator, kunstcriticus Giovanni Battista Crema}}
He mainly painted social subjects with symbolist style. He was influenced by Gaetano Previati.{{cite web |url=http://www.fondazionecrtortona.it/divisionismo/artisti/giovanni-battista-crema/ |publisher=Pinacoteca of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Tortona |title=biography of their collection of Divisionist painters. |language=Italian |access-date=2017-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404094437/http://www.fondazionecrtortona.it/divisionismo/artisti/giovanni-battista-crema/ |archive-date=2017-04-04 |url-status=dead }}
His work is included in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art,{{cite web| url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/4284/triptych-prisoners-of-the-mountain-mist-giovanni-battista-crema |title = Triptych: Prisoners of the Mountain Mist, Giovanni Battista Crema ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art}} the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, Italy,{{cite web| url=http://www.museorevoltella.it/studi.php?ID=11 | title=Article | publisher=Revoltella Museum }} the Ascoli Piceno Museum at Palazzo dell'Arengo, Ascoli Piceno, Marche,{{Cite web | url=http://www.regione.marche.it/Regione-Utile/Cultura/Catalogo-beni-culturali/RicercaCatalogoBeni/ids/1441/Ritratto-di-donna-che-legge |title = Ritratto di Donna Che Legge}} and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Tortona in Tortona, Italy.{{cite web| url=https://www.ildivisionismo.it/lavoro-notturno-alla-stazione-termini/ |title = Lavoro notturno alla stazione Termini|date = 2019-01-26}}
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Category:Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli alumni
Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:20th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
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Category:19th-century Italian male artists
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