Pier Celestino Gilardi

Pier Celestino Gilardi

Self portrait, 1861.
Born 16 September 1837 (1837-09-16)
Campertogno, Italy
Died 4 October 1905 (1905-10-05) (aged 68)
Borgosesia, Italy

Pier Celestino Gilardi (16 September 1837 – 4 October 1905) was an Italian painter and sculptor.

Life and career

Born in Campertogno, the son of a sculptor, Gilardi studied at the Technical School of carving in Varallo and then, thanks to a scholarship of the Collegio Caccia of Novara, he enrolled at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, studying painting under Andrea Gastaldi. He held his first exhibitions in 1862.[1]

Between 1873 and 1884 Gilardi was assistant of Gastaldi at the Accademia Albertina, and in 1884 was promoted to the role of professor of drawing. In 1889 he succeeded to Gastaldi as professor of painting.[1]

Initially interested in historical subjects, starting from the second half of the 1860s Gilardi eventually specialized in genre painting, and from the middle of the 1870s focused in often humorous depictions of elderly subjects and of church everyday life. He got a large popularity due to the painting Hodie mihi cras tibi (1884), now in the Modern Art Gallery of Turin.[1][2]

Among his pupils was Giovanni Guarlotti[3] and Giovanni Rava.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Antonella Casassa (2000). "Gilardi, Pier Celestino". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 54. Treccani.
  2. ↑ Pier Celestino Gilardi. Atti del convegno. Rotaract Club Valsesia, 2005.
  3. ↑ Notes for exhibition of Solo Donna: La Figura Femminile nella prima metà del Novecento in Piemonte, curated by Gianfranco Schialvino; exhibition in the city of Bra in 2011, page 106.
  4. ↑ Gianfranco Schialvino, page 138.
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