Attilio Melo (padua 1917-milan 2011) - Portrait

Attilio Melo (Padua 1917-Milan 2011) - Portrait
Author: Attilio Melo (Padua 1917 - Milan 2011) - Portrait of a Child

Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1972

Dimensions: height 65 cm; width 60 cm

Born in Padua, he always lived and worked in Milan.
He attended the Brera School of Fine Arts. A pupil of Parlanti and Carpi, he followed the nineteenth-century tradition, studying the Impressionists in particular.
Attilio Melo also made a name for himself internationally as a portraitist of famous people and beautiful women (Arturo Toscanini, De Gasperi, Princess Pignatelli D'Aragona, Gronchi, etc.).
He also devoted himself to landscapes in which the human figure is excluded or reduced to tiny spots of colour.
The protagonists are meadows, buildings, rivers or the sea, and the technique changes compared to portraiture, becoming freer and more varied.
His works can be found at the Presidency of the Republic, the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome, the Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Rome, the American Embassy in Rome, the Don Sturzo Institute in Rome, the Picture Gallery of the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan, and the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.

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