Orientalist Painting By Giulio Carlini

Oil painting on canvas depicting an orientalist scene with a sultan in a rich robe and a turban while removing a veil from one of his concubines. Signed and dated lower right G. Carlini Venezia 1862 Author Giulio Carlini (Venice 1826-1887). With a beautiful golden frame. Measures: 83 x 102 cm CARLINI, Giulio. - He was born in Venice on August 12. 1826 (Mainella, p. 7) by Bernardo and Barbara Barotto. His first artistic training took place at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (circa 1845-1850) as a student of professors O. Politi and L. Lipparini. He then married Carlotta Mola di Mendrisio, born in Ticino, and had their daughters Alfonsa, Adele and Francesca. Official painter of the Kingdom of Italy, C. obtained important prizes: adviser of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (1873), Knight of the Crown of Italy (1874), academician of the Academy of Fine Arts Arts of Venice and 'Raffaello Academy Sanzio d'Urbino (1879). He exhibited in Venice from 1847 to 1887, in Neustrelitz (1873), in Vienna (1882) and in Munich (383). A tireless painter with precocious and versatile talent, C. distinguished himself in the courteous and official portrait and in the historical genre, soon conquering the most influential Italian and foreign private clients and numerous public offices; he also dabbled in sacred subjects, character drawing and "genre painting" in the latter with results that brought him closer to Favretto and Ciardi (Lavagnino). In composition and color, C. was inspired by the models of the ancient painters he admired the most: Bellini, Tiziano, Véronèse and Tintoretto, thus yielding to the suggestions of an excessively open eclecticism (Centelli, p. 313) .