Studio: international art (53.1911)

International- Art Exhibition, Rome

room, in the "nocturnes"
and moonlight effects of
Fragiacomo, who is most at-
tractive in his Harmony 0/
Evening—a scene at twilight
on the Venetian lagoon and
again in the next room is the
work of Bezzi, whose Vision
of Night ( Visione Notturna}
has all the Venetian charm
of great surfaces of rippled
water and subdued light. In
the same room Italico Brass-
strikes quite a different note
in his paintings of the Car-
nival at Venice in the Piaz-
zetta, of the Lido beach
scattered with bathers, and
the Cafe Florian with behind
it the Piazza sparkling in the

"hemmenue" .y c. cataldi sunlight; but the romantic

note finds expression again
in the Summer Night of

obviously affected in his art by the influence of Sartorelli, one of the finest imaginative landscapes

Mancini, whom we shall come to later: but in all in this section.

this school of Lombardy, which we may take to Better known perhaps—especially to the English

include such Piedmontese painters of landscape as public—is the work of the Ciardi family, of whom

Peliti, we find variety, originality, vigour—qualities the brilliant daughter, Emma Ciardi, held quite

entirely typical of the two cities of industry and recently an exhibition in London. Here the father,

progress, Turin and Milan. Guglielmo Ciardi, has three paintings, the best

One of the most attractive and interesting of which—The Fisherman's Home—has just the

schools of modern Italy is that of Venice, and we qualities of luminosity and of those incomparable

touch this school already in the third Italian pearl-grey tints of sea and sky which are peculiar

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" les recluses miserabi.es"
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by ernesto bion'di