Draft:Guglielmo Guglielmini

Guglielmo Guglielmini
Born(1870-12-15)15 December 1870
Died1911(1911-00-00) (aged 40–41)
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementArt Nouveau

Guglielmo Guglielmini (Bergamo, 15 December 1870 - Bergamo, 1911) was an Italian painter of the Art Nouveau style.

Biography

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Born in Bergamo in 1870, foundling child adopted by a craftman's family, he studied drawing at the School of painting of the Accademia Carrara in his home town with the renown painter Ponziano Loverini[1] and later at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.

 
Firma

He moved to Eritrea in 1896 to make sketches and drawings about the Ethiopian war for illustrated journals. After having come back to his home town, he established a workshop of paints and fresco paintings in the ancient street Sant’Alessandro.[2] He painted vivid frescos in the Church of Boltiere and on the vault and first span of the lateral Chapel of Saint Jesus of the Church of "Santa Maria Immacolata delle Grazie" of Bergamo.[3] and in the Hall of the Drinks of the Spa of San Pellegrino.[4]

Among the deserted ruins of a rustic porch uphill near the spring, a broad Hall in Pompeian style has been raised, 32 meters long that is devoted to drinking the spa salt water. From its upper wall, a long, concrete trough protrudes from which the water flowing from the nearby spring falls. The ceiling and the walls were decorated by the renown painters, Gottardo Valentini from Milan, and Guglielmini from Bergamo, with paintings and allegorical figures, perhaps too provocative.

Painter and decorator pertaining to the Art Nouveau style, he participated to the Milan International Exhibition, 1906 and took part in the competition for designing the membership card of the Circolo Artistico Bergamasco (1910)[5]. He died still young in 1911 and has been inhumated at the Monumental cimitery of Bergamo.

Works

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  • Medallions with the portrait of Saints: the Virgin Mary, Saint Agnes, Saint Luigi Gonzaga, Christ crowned with thorns, Saint Carlo Borromeo, Saint Bernardino from Siena 1898
 
Christ crowned with thorns
  • Crossbearing Angels 1903
 
Crossbearing Angels
  • Frescos in Pompeian style, Hall of the Drinks of the Spa of San Pellegrino.[6]
  • Frescos of the dome and arches of the church of Saint George at Boltiere (1909)[7]
 
Decorazione della cupola della chiesa di San Giorgio martire, Boltiere (1909)
 
Decorazioni della navata

Bibliography

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  • Rossana Bossaglia (1985). Stile e struttura delle città termali. Volume I: Lombardia, Piemonte, Valle D'Aosta. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche.
  • Luigi Pagnoni (1992). Chiese parrocchiali bergamasche. Appunti di storia e arte. Bergamo: Litostampa Tecnico Grafica.
  • Circolo Artistico Bergamasco (1995). Centenario della fondazione 1895-1995. Arti Grafiche Mariani e Monti. Bergamo.
  • Tarcisio Bottani (2019). Liberty a San Pellegrino Terme. Bergamo: Corponove.
 
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Notes

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  1. ^ Angelo Pinetti (1930). Ponziano Loverini, con 76 illustrazioni e 4 tavole fuori testo. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche. p. 99.
  2. ^ He was listed as Decorator for Paintings in: F.lli Carnazzi, Diario e guida della città di Bergamo, 1910 p. 423 (succeeding to Luigi Guglielmini); and as Painter in: Società editrice commerciale, Bergamo e provincia: Guida 1910 p. 382 e Guida 1911 p. 376
  3. ^ They include six medallions with the portrait of Saints: the Virgin Mary, Saint Agnes, Saint Luigi Gonzaga, Christ Crowned with Thorns, Saint Carlo Borromeo, Saint Bernardino from Siena 1898 and the Crossbearing Angels 1903, see: Centro Culturale delle Grazie, 2023, Note per un itinerario artistico
  4. ^ "La metamorfosi di San Pellegrino dal 1854 al 1908" (PDF). Il Corriere di San Pellegrino: 1. 23 July 1908.
  5. ^ Preserved in a private collection. See Circolo Artistico Bergamasco. Centenario della fondazione 1895-1995. Arti Grafiche Mariani e Monti. p. 61.
  6. ^ "Le nuove terme di San Pellegrino Un tour in anteprima". 18 December 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2024..
  7. ^ "Beni culturali ecclesiastici della Diocesi di Bergamo". Retrieved 9 May 2024.
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