ArtistCorelli, Filiberto

Artist Years1886-1969

Artist NationalityItalian

TitlePort of Venice

Yearca. 1910

MediumPainting > Oil

DimensionsCanvas: 15.5 X 31.5 inches

Accession NumberRC1900

NotesHis natural predisposition for drawing and painting, manifested since childhood, began in the artistic environment created in Anticoli Corrado by his father, the Roman painter Augusto Corelli. He completed regular studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Rome, obtaining the title of professor, but of greater and decisive importance for him was the teaching of his father with whom he worked, as a privileged student, first in the studio of Anticoli Corrado and then for some years in the one in Rome in Viale Giulio Cesare. At the beginning, following in his father's footsteps, he dedicated himself exclusively to the landscape of the Roman countryside, favoring that of Anticoli; subsequently, following the transfer of his studio from Rome to Acilia, which kept him away from the artistic environment of the capital, his rather reserved and shy character was accentuated, which pushed him towards religious art. Views of the Roman countryside and in particular of Anticoli Corrado; sacred subjects; Roman views; he also succeeded well in the figure. Rather than watercolor, a technique in which his father was an undisputed master, he preferred oil.

EXHIBITIONS:
1914-15 Association of Watercolorists in Rome
1921 First Roman Biennial
1925-6, 1928 Society of Lovers and Cultivators of Fine Arts, Rome
1924 Third Roman Biennial
1931 First National Quadrennial of Art, Rome;
1950 International Exhibition of Sacred Art in the Vatican

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Biancale, Not all the twenty-five of the Roman Countryside died, in “Momento Sera”, Rome 11.10.1955, p.3.
P. Scarpa, F. Corelli, in “Il Messaggero”, Rome 04.01.1957.
R. Mammucari, Poetry of the Roman Countryside in the art of the “XXV”, Velletri 1979, p.17.
R. Mammucari, The Society of Watercolourists in Rome, Velletri 1987, page 197.
From the Roman Countryside to the Pontine Marshes, Catalogue of the exhibition at Palazzo Casali in Cortona, Rome 1987.
R. Mammucari – R. Langella, The Painters of the Bad Air, Velletri 1988.
R. Mammucari, The Roman Countryside, Newton Compton Editori, Rome 1992.
(Source: Renato Mammucari, Professor of Art History, Rome)