We are pleased to present to you an original artwork created using the soot technique on ceramics.
Painted in charcoal color on ceramic, oval serving plate. The charcoal was then sealed with a fixer, and the painter masterfully executed it starting from darkness. At the bottom, the inscription „made by firing……F. Zennaro.” In good condition aside from a few minor scratches.
Felice Zennaro, also known as Leppa, was born on October 8, 1833, in Pellestrina in the Venice province. He received his first artistic education at the Venice Academy, where he probably met Natale Schiavoni, who was already settled in the city by the lagoon. Later, Zennaro stayed in Milan, at the Brera Academy, as a student of Giuseppe Bertini. His studies were often interrupted to volunteer for the wars of independence against Austria, after which he left behind patriotic-themed paintings, such as the Battle of Bezzecca, a work with a powerful dramatic interpretation (Milan, Risorgimento Museum), in which the artist was wounded and left for dead.
In 1865, he exhibited in Brera a Turk, purchased by the Society of Fine Arts. In 1898, he was in Turin with the painting Ingenuity and Good Heart; two years later, at the Milan exhibition of nineteenth-century Lombard painting, he exhibited Primi passi. Felice Zennaro's genre themes often also refer to the Risorgimento epic or are related to it.
His activity as a portrait painter is also notable, as evidenced by works such as Self-portrait, Portrait of Count Francesco Annoni, Portrait of Mrs. Cottini (Milan, Modern Art Gallery). He died in Milan on March 7, 1926. His works are housed in the Risorgimento Museum and in the portrait collection of Ospedale Maggiore in Milan.
Height: 37cm
Width: 28cm
Depth: 3cm
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