Luigi Serra
| Luigi Serra | |
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Luigi Serra, self portrait 1887
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June 8, 1846 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | July 11, 1888 (aged 42) Bologna, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
Luigi Serra (June 8, 1846 – July 11, 1888) was an Italian painter, including watercolors.
In 1858 Serra began studies at the Collegio artistico Venturoli, working first under Gaetano Serrazanetti and then under Luigi Busi. In 1863 he was admitted the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, where he studied under Giulio Cesare Ferrari, Antonio Puccinelli, and Salvino Salvini, and in 1865 he received a medal for painting. In 1866, he won the Angiolini Stipend, a prize that allowed him to travel to Florence.
In Florence, he was a companion of Raffaele Faccioli, with whom he shared an award in 1866. The last years of his scholarship (1869-1870) led him to move to Rome. In Florence, while he befriended the circle of Macchiaioli painters who frequented the Caffè Michelangiolo; Serra practiced in a Purismo style recalling Quattrocento painters like Francesco del Cossa, Andrea del Castagno, Verrocchio, and Pollaiolo.> In the early 1870s Serra joined a city council for education led by Giosue Carducci and Raffaele Belluzzi. Serra along with the lawyer Ulisse Sartori, represented the Societies of Artists and Fine Arts.
In 1870 at Parma, he exhibited: Annibale Bentivoglio, prisoner in the Castle of Varano. In 1883 at Rome: The entry of the Catholic Army into Prague. Among his watercolors: Mezzogiorno; Dal Colosseo (1884, exhibited at Mostra of Fine Arts in Turin); and the sketch San Carlo ai Catinari.
In 1873, accompanied by Mario De Maria, Paolo Bedini, and Raffaele Faccioli, Serra travelled to the International Exposition of Vienna. In 1874 he travels to Turin, and meets Marco Calderini, and the next year wins another three-year stipend. In 1875, after three years, Serra finished his Allegory of the Arts for the sipario (theater curtain) for Theater of Fabriano. In 1880, he returned to finish further painting of allegorical figures for the ceiling of the Theater Gentile in Fabriano. In 1877 Serra moved to Rome, the following year he began studies for the large painting Entry of the Catholic Army into Prague for the apse of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria.
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