DOI issue:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0192
MILAN
MILAN.—Carlo Prada, a Milanese the figure a singular sense of piety. As a
painter, not yet forty, has been one landscape painter he began with divi-
of the few Italian painters to reach fame sionism, and was quite successful; but
in a remarkably short time. 0 a has now abandoned that school, which,
The reasons for his early success are to after Segantini, was followed by many
be found in the fact that after having ex- Italians, and has chosen a more solid form
hibited a number of brilliant pictures on of painting, a a a a 0
the occasion of his one-man show at the His latest works are exhibited at the
Pesaro Gallery, he was chosen to paint fourteenth International Exhibition of
the portrait of His Holiness the Pope Venice, and they give us the sensation
Pius XI.; in fact, His Holiness posed that Sig. Prada seeks to be as true as
several times, and, curiously enough, in possible to his subject, and overcomes
ordinary robes ; it had been the custom difficulties by sound study and endless
for centuries for Popes to have their perseverance. His continuous endeavour
portrait painted in state robes. a a for improvement will certainly bring him
However, the picture, though far from into the foremost line of Italian painters,
being regal is for this reason more interest- He has recently been elected Member
ing, as it puts His Holiness in the light of the Academy of Brera, and one of his
of a good pastor, and Signor Prada has pictures exhibited in Venice has been
undoubtedly attained his end in giving purchased by the Municipality of Milan
172
LANDSCAPE. BY CARLO PRADA
(Villa Reale Gallery, Milan)
MILAN.—Carlo Prada, a Milanese the figure a singular sense of piety. As a
painter, not yet forty, has been one landscape painter he began with divi-
of the few Italian painters to reach fame sionism, and was quite successful; but
in a remarkably short time. 0 a has now abandoned that school, which,
The reasons for his early success are to after Segantini, was followed by many
be found in the fact that after having ex- Italians, and has chosen a more solid form
hibited a number of brilliant pictures on of painting, a a a a 0
the occasion of his one-man show at the His latest works are exhibited at the
Pesaro Gallery, he was chosen to paint fourteenth International Exhibition of
the portrait of His Holiness the Pope Venice, and they give us the sensation
Pius XI.; in fact, His Holiness posed that Sig. Prada seeks to be as true as
several times, and, curiously enough, in possible to his subject, and overcomes
ordinary robes ; it had been the custom difficulties by sound study and endless
for centuries for Popes to have their perseverance. His continuous endeavour
portrait painted in state robes. a a for improvement will certainly bring him
However, the picture, though far from into the foremost line of Italian painters,
being regal is for this reason more interest- He has recently been elected Member
ing, as it puts His Holiness in the light of the Academy of Brera, and one of his
of a good pastor, and Signor Prada has pictures exhibited in Venice has been
undoubtedly attained his end in giving purchased by the Municipality of Milan
172
LANDSCAPE. BY CARLO PRADA
(Villa Reale Gallery, Milan)