Ndoc Martini
{{Short description|Albanian painter}}
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| birth_place = Shkodër, Albania (then Ottoman Empire)
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Ndoc Martini (born Ndoc Camaj; [also spelled Zamaj] 17 January 1880 – 6 December 1916) was an Albanian painter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.shkodradaily.com/2016/08/ndoc-martini.html|title=Piktori Ndoc Martini, jeta dhe veprat e tij|last1=ShkodraDaily|last2=Daily|first2=Shkodra|language=en|access-date=2019-08-01}}
Life
Martini was born in Shkodër, north Albania, then in the Ottoman Empire. He was a Roman Catholic, his family were speaking with the Gheg dialect of the Albanian language. He took his first lessons from Kolë Idromeno in his home town at the School of Arts and Crafts.{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5ztAAAAMAAJ&q=Ndoc+Martini| accessdate=2014-11-28| page=349| title=History of Humanity: The nineteenth century|author1=Sigfried J. de Laet |author2=Ahmad Hasan Dani |author3=José Luis Lorenzo |author4=R. B. Nunoo |publisher=Routledge| date=2005-03-16| isbn=978-0415093101| series=History of Humanity| volume=6}} From 1904 to 1907 he lived in Calabria, Italy based on a scholarship from the "Scuola Normale nel Collegio Italo-Albanese di San Demetrio Corone".{{citation|language=Italian| url=http://www.arbitalia.it/news/mazziotti/2008/martini.htm| title=S.O.S. PER LE PITTURE DI NDOC MARTINI A SAN DEMETRIO CORONE|trans-title=SOS for the paintings of Ndoc Martini in San Demetrio Corone| publisher=Arbitalia| year=2008| author=Adriano Mazziotti}}
After that he studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He had to interrupt the studies because of financial issues, but kept working as a painter in the Pensi studio. In 1913 he started suffering from tuberculosis and died in 1916 in a sanatorium in Paris, France.{{citation |author= Robert Elsie|title=Historical Dictionary of Albania|edition=2|volume=75| series=Historical Dictionaries of Europe|publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=268; 294 |year=2010 |isbn= 978-0810861886 }}
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Sources and external links
- [http://www.shkodradaily.com/2016/08/ndoc-martini.html Piktori Ndoc Martini, jeta dhe veprat e tij] {{citation|title=ShkodraDaily|language=Albanian}}
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Category:People from Scutari vilayet
Category:19th-century Albanian painters