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Tommaso Cascella senior (1890–1968) was an Italian painter, known for brightly colored landscapes.

Biography

He was born in Ortona in the Abruzzo. He trained in the Liceo Artistico of Giuseppe Misticoni. His father Basilio and his younger siblings Michele (1907–1941) and Gioacchino were all painters. Tommaso traveled to Paris in 1909. Their house in Pescara is now the Museo Basilio Cascella.

References

1. "Pescara e Gabriele D'Annunzio". Pescara, Zazzetta. 1904.
2. Tommaso Cascella: Con Gabriele d'Annunzio a Parigi nel 1914: come venni liberato dal carcere e dalla fucilazione, Pescara 1963
3. Giusto, Pino. "Guida rapida alla Cattedrale Basilica di San Tommaso apostolo". BASILICA - CATTEDRALE SAN TOMMASO APOSTOLO IN ORTONA (in Italian).
4. TOMMASO CASCELLA. IL PERCORSO DI UNA VITA (1890–1968); 2009 exhibition at Fondazione Paparella-Treccia, Pescara; curated by Giovanbattista Benedicenti and Vincenzo De Pompeis.

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