(b Cupramontana, Ancona, 8 Feb 1892; d Rome, 16 May 1963). Italian painter, printmaker and writer. He spent his youth in Rome, Siena and Florence and completed his studies in 1910 at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Siena. He made his first etchings around 1909 in Florence, where he studied the prints of Jacques Callot, Giovanni Fattori and Rembrandt and attended both the faculty of arts of the university as well as courses in anatomy at the faculty of medicine. Bartolini began painting in oils just before World War I and during the war fought as an officer at the Front. He resumed his artistic activity in 1919, establishing himself as a printmaker. He continued to produce paintings, however, for example Meeting with Nomads (1922; Rome, G.N.A. Mod.). In 1932, along with Giorgio Morandi and Boccioni, he won a prize at the Mostra dell'Incisione Italiana in Florence and in 1935 obtained first prize for printmaking at the second Quadriennale at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, where he exhibited 50 etchings. He demonstrated great facility and inventiveness as a printmaker (e.g. Fragile Shell, etching, 1936; see exh. cat., no. 194), often incorporating short poetic phrases in the plates.
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Luigi Bartolini (February 8, 1892 – May 16, 1963) was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is most well known for his novel, Bicycle Thieves, upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based. He published more than 70 books during his lifetime.
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