Mylius Prize

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| awarded_for = art prize; awards for painting in oils and for fresco painting

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| date = 1841–1939

| location = Milan, Lombardy

| country = Italy

| presenter = {{nobreak|Accademia di Brera, Milan}}

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The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist {{ill|Heinrich Mylius|it|Enrico Mylius}} in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in Milan,{{r|gia|page=17}} which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco work.{{r|gui|page=155}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=qYlQAAAAYAAJ Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d'Italia, Volume 6], 1887, page 6387. It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World War.{{r|gia|page=29}}

Among the recipients of the award were Salvatore Mazza (1856), Pietro Michis (1868), Vespasiano Bignami (1869), Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1870), Filippo Carcano (1878), {{ill|Giovanni Beltrami|it|Giovanni Beltrami (pittore)}}, (1884) Amerino Cagnoni (1886), Francesco Filippini (1890), Egidio Riva (1902), Donato Frisia (1920) and Trento Longaretti (1939).{{r|gia|page=29|trecc|trecc2|trecc3}}

References

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Giacomo Agosti, Matteo Ceriana (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=yFjrAAAAMAAJ Le raccolte storiche dell'Accademia di Brera] (in Italian). Florence: Centro Di della Edifimi. {{ISBN|978-88-7038-299-0}}.

[s.n.] (1856). [https://books.google.com/books?id=yFjrAAAAMAAJ Guida di Milano per l'anno 1856, volume XXXIII] (in Italian). Milan: Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio.

Elda Fezzi (1966). [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-beltrami_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Beltrami, Giovanni] (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 8. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.

Roberto Ferrari (1996). [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-battista-ferrari_res-0c84c95d-87ed-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Ferrari, Giovanni Battista] (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 46. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.

Ilaria Sgarbozza (2008). [http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/salvatore-mazza_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ Mazza, Salvatore] (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 72. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.

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Category:Brera Academy

Category:Awards established in 1841

Category:1841 establishments in Italy

Category:Awards disestablished in 1939

Category:1939 disestablishments in Italy