Thursday, May 29, 2025

Giulio Aristide Sartorio (1860 – 1932) - Italian painter and film director

Found by Ognyan Hristov and posted on the Facebook page

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Born on 11th February 1860 in Rome, Italy, Sartorio attended the Rome Institute of Fine Arts and presented a Symbolist work at the 1883 International Exposition of Rome. He formed friendships with Nino Costa and Gabriele D’Annunzio, and associated with the painters and photographers of the Roman countryside. He won a gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889 and met the Pre-Raphaelites in England in 1893. His participation in the Venice Biennale began in 1895 with the 1st International Exposition of Art of Venice, after which he taught at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts from 1896 to 1898.

Sartorio’s period of greatest renown came at the beginning of the century, when he produced decorative friezes for the 5th Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte of Venice (1903), the Mostra Nazionale of Fine Arts (Milan, Parco Sempione, 1906) and Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome (1908–12). 

Sartorio served during the First World War and was wounded. After the war he travelled extensively in the Middle East, Japan and Latin America during the 1920s and became a member of the Italian Royal Academy.

Sartorio dued on 3rd October 1932. 

Sources: Wikipedia and Ognyan Hristov