Carlo Balestrini (March 24, 1868 – February 10, 1922) was an Italian painter. His best-known works are Impressionist landscapes with animals, especially horses.
Biography
Born to a wealthy family in Albese near Milan, Carlo Balestrino studied at the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Bertini.
Among his works are: Cavallanti di ritorno; Paesaggio (1900, Milan mostra dell’Ottocento Lombardo); Abel (symbolist work which gained the premio Gavazzi prize at the 1897 Triennale of Milan); Portrait of Emilia Rizzi vedova Daccò; La calata della neve (1905, Biennale of Venice); Impressione invernale - Darsena di Milano (1906, National Exposition of Milan); Il “Porto di Milano” - Effetto di neve (1914, Biennale of Venice); Le slitte (1908, Brera); Stalla di vacche alla fattoria (1910, National Exposition of Milan). Balestrini also painted for the parish church of Santo Redentore and San Francesco of Cortenuova.
The author Erminia Mimma Viganò has published a novel titled Note nell’aria, whose protagonist's life intersects with that of the painter.
References
- Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 181.
- Online museum of the artistic patrimony of the Hospital of Varese Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine, short biography.
- Lombardia Beni Culturali Painting of Abel, now at Museum of Como.
- "Online Museum of Hospital of Varese". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-02-06.
- Istituto Matteucci short biography.
- Article of Viganò novel.
- Casate online article.
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