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| Tommaso Lorenzone (1824–1902) | ||||||||||
| Born in Pancalieri, near Turin, Lorenzone was an Italian Romantic painter and watercolourist. He studied at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin under Giovanni Battista Biscarra and others, receiving a classical education that was enriched with Romantic elements. His early works, primarily religious, expanded to literary and genre subjects over time. Lorenzone painted for the Queen of Sardinia, creating several portraits of the royal family and gaining widespread recognition. This success led to commissions for altarpieces in churches and religious orders. After his final exhibition in 1859, where he presented a genre painting, he began to focus on portraiture for the Turinese aristocracy and bourgeoisie alongside his religious works. In 1865, he was one of the artists chosen to decorate the newly built Santa Maria Ausiliatrice church at Valdocco and continued producing religious works for churches in the years that followed. Though Lorenzone usually employed a refined academic technique, his brushwork varied, moving from smooth and idealised forms in portraits to more expressive, emotive handling in his large-scale religious works. Acclaimed and honoured throughout his life, he died in Turin. | ||||||||||
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