Emanuele Cavalli
| Emanuele Cavalli | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1904 Lucera, Italy |
| Died | 1981 Florence, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting, photography |
| Notable work |
La sposa (The Bride, 1935) |
| Movement | Scuola Romana |
| Awards |
1948 – 1st Prize, II Regional Expo |
| Patron(s) | Massimo Bontempelli, Corrado Cagli |
La sposa (The Bride, 1935)
Donne (Women, 1935)
1948 – 1st Prize, II Regional Expo
1950 – Michetti Prize
1953 – Fiorino Prize Florence
1955 – Prize of the Italian Ministry of Education, VII Quadriennale di Roma
1962 – Frosinone Prize
1966 – Posillipo Prize Naples
1967 – Golden Fiorino Florence
Emanuele Cavalli (1904 – 1981) was an Italian painter belonging to the modern movement of the Scuola Romana (Roman School). He was also a renowned photographer, who experimented with new techniques since the 1930s.
The son of Apulian landowners, Cavalli moved to Rome in 1921, where he became a student of the Italian painter Felice Carena, also attending a local art college. In 1926 he exhibited some paintings at the Biennale di Venezia, where he would continue to exhibit regularly.
From 1927 to 1930, Cavalli attended some exhibitions together with the painters Giuseppe Capogrossi and Francesco Di Cocco, also travelling to France (1928), where he was introduced by his friend Onofrio Martinelli to the circle of Italiens de Paris (i.e., De Pisis, De Chirico, Savinio and others). He exhibited at the Salon Bovy in Paris with Fausto Pirandello and Di Cocco, then in 1930 he returned to Rome, where he became one of the painters of the Scuola Romana.
In a series of exhibitions Cavalli held from 1931 to 1933, the artist began elaborating Tonalism, a pictorial and aesthetic style that will find in him one of its best and most refined interpreters, even from the theoretical point of view. In these exhibitions he received the support from important art critics and collectors, as well as from renowned Italian author Massimo Bontempelli, the uncle of his friend Corrado Cagli and the promoter of "Magic realism", a literary and artistic movement which had many similarities with tonalistic painting.
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