Vittorio Matteo Corcos
{{Short description|Italian painter (1859–1933)}}
File:Vittorio Matteo Corcos Autoritratto 1913.jpg
Vittorio Matteo Corcos (4 October 1859 – 8 November 1933) was an Italian painter, known for his portraits. Many of his genre works depict winsome and finely dressed young men and women, in moments of repose and recreation.
Biography
He was born to Jewish parents, Isacco and Giuditta Baquis, in Livorno. He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under Enrico Pollastrini. Between 1878 and 1879 he worked under Domenico Morelli in Naples.{{Cite web |url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00042124?rskey=uAEt8G&result=1 |title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |access-date=2016-09-13 |archive-date=2017-08-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811012841/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00042124?rskey=uAEt8G&result=1 |url-status=dead }}
He then traveled to Paris where he met Léon Bonnat, and signed a contract with the Goupil & Cie, he was able to supplement his income as a portrait painter with illustrations for magazines. He frequented the circles of Giuseppe De Nittis. Between 1881 and 1886, he frequently exhibited at the Salon.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/arts/international/a-reassessment-of-corcos-sensuality-and-subtlety-intact.html?_r=0 |title=The New York Times, article by Roderick Conway Morris A Reassessment of Corcos, Sensuality and Subtlety Intact, Oct. 7, 2014 |access-date=2017-03-03 |archive-date=2023-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214062705/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/arts/international/a-reassessment-of-corcos-sensuality-and-subtlety-intact.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}
He returned to Italy in 1886, putatively to join the army, and settled in Florence. He converted to Catholicism and married a widow, Emma Ciabatti. In Florence, he made friends in the intellectual circles, and made portraits of Silvestro Lega, Giosue Carducci, and Pietro Mascagni. After 1900, he wrote for the Florentine Journal Il Marzocco. He also published a short story in the magazine Fanfulla della Domenica titled Mademoiselle Leprince. In 1904, he traveled to Potsdam to paint Emperor William II and other members of the German monarchy. During World War I, his son died in battle in 1916. In the 1920s he joined the Gruppo Labronico along with Plinio Nomellini and Ulvi Liegi.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SWvlnlhl_l8C Gardens and Ghettos: The Art of Jewish Life in Italy] edited by Vivian B. Mann, Jewish Museum (New York, N.Y.), page 332.
He also painted portraits of Mussolini (1928), Countess Annina Morosini, Countess Nerina Volpi di Misurata, Giosuè Carducci, Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, and Queen Amélie of Portugal, Princess of Orleans;
In 1913, his self-portrait was accepted by the Uffizi museum.[http://www.zabarella.it/mostre/corcos/cronologia/ Biography from 2014 exhibition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919110838/http://www.zabarella.it/mostre/corcos/cronologia/ |date=2016-09-19 }}.[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vittorio-matteo-corcos_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Encyclopedia Treccani] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109092103/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vittorio-matteo-corcos_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ |date=2021-11-09 }}; Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 28 (1983), entry by Carlo Sisi.
He died in Florence in 1933.
Selected paintings
File:(Treviso) Sogni by Vittorio Matteo Corcos - Rome Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna.jpg|Dreams, 1896
File:Vittorio Matteo Corcos - Conversation in the Jardin du Luxembourg.jpg|Conversation in the
Jardin du Luxembourg
File:Corcos Vittorio In The Garden.jpg|In The Garden
File:Corcos Stella e Piero 1889.jpg|Stella and Piero, 1889
File:Vittorio Matteo Corcos Junge Dame mit Hündchen c1895.jpg| Young Woman
with a little dog
File:Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg|Portrait of a
Young Woman
File:Corcos-Pomeriggio-in-terrazza.jpg|Afternoon on the Terrace
File:Rainha D. Amélia - Museu Nacional dos Coches.tif|Portrait of Amélie of Orléans, Queen of Portugal, 1905
Collections
- Sogni, 1896, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
- Portrait d'Amélie d'Orléans, 1905, National Coach Museum
- Self portrait : Uffizi
Bibliography
- Carlo Sisi : Vittorio Corcos : il fantasma e il fiore : [mostra, Livorno, Museo Civico "G. Fattori", 26 giugno - 7 settembre 1997, Firenze, Galleria d'arte moderna, Palazzo Pitti, 16 settembre-12 ottobre 1997], Firenze : EDIFIR, 1997, ({{ISBN|978-88797-0054-2}})
- Ilaria Taddei, Fernando Mazzocca, Carlo Sisi: Corcos: i sogni della Belle Époque, Marsilio, 2014 ({{ISBN|978-88317-1749-6}}).[https://books.google.com/books?id=mq_SoQEACAAJ Ggbooks]
References
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External links
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- (it) [http://www.zabarella.it/mostre/corcos/ Corcos, Fondation Bano Palazzo Zabarella]
- (it) [http://www.barbarainwonderlart.com/2014/06/14/vittorio-corcos-sogno-belle-epoque/ BWA, Vittorio Corcos: sogno di una Belle Époque]
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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
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Category:20th-century Italian male artists
Category:Painters from Florence
Category:Italian genre painters
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