Tito Conti
{{Short description|Italian painter (1842–1924)}}
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Tito Conti (1842–1924)[http://www.museidigenova.it/spip.php?article518 Museo of Genoa] exhibit. was an Italian painter, mainly of genre costume or historical subjects.
Biography
He was born and lived in Florence, where he studied at the Institute of Fine Arts.[http://www.istitutomatteucci.it/it/dizionario-degli-artisti/conti-tito Istituto Matteucci] biography.
He was resident professor at the Academic College of Fine Arts of Florence.{{cite web | url=http://www.aadfi.it/?accademico=conti-tito | title= Conti Tito Aadfi }} Among his works are: La Presentazione; Il quarto d'ora di Rabelais e La musica (1876); Il brindisi alla bettoliera; L'addio; Portrait of his wife; Il sospetto; Il Cantastorie; Il Moschettiere; and Per la passeggiata (1886, Florence).[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 137. Among his pupils was Arturo Ricci.
With regards to Conti, who he grouped in thematic to Francesco Vinea and Edoardo Gelli, the contemporary American art collector James Jackson Jarves described him relative to the other two as showing "more refinement and higher artistic culture". While praising his "painting of tapestried backgrounds, ornate furniture, and elaborate details", he also disparaged the thematic, saying: "He paints too well for his subject. If his creative faculty were equal to his execution, he would be the first painter of his day."The New School of Italian Painting and Sculpture, by James Jackson Jarves, Harper's Monthly, Volume 60, Number 358; March 1880, page 486-487.
Gallery
File:Tito Conti – The Secret Postbox.jpg|The Secret Postbox, 1876
File:Tito Conti - 01.jpg|Girl with auburn hair
File:Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter Vicky, German Crown Princess.jpg|Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter Vicky, German Crown Princess visit Napoleon's boudoir, 1879
File:A pleasant reflection).webp|A pleasant reflection
File:Tito Conti - The Model.jpg|The model
References
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External links
- {{Art UK bio}}. Paintings by Conti in British public collections.
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Category:Italian costume genre painters
Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:20th-century Italian painters
Category:20th-century Italian male artists
Category:Painters from Florence
Category:19th-century Italian male artists
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