Lucio Todeschini (1892-1969) - Piazza San Babila Milano

A significant work by painter Lucio Todeschini. (Milan 1892 – Cortenova/Como 1969) Oil on wooden panel in good condition.
The piece measures 24.3 cm by 15.5 cm.
The frame is original to the period and has its protective glass.
Lucio Todeschini was part of a family of artists. His father, Giambattista, was an established painter during the second half of the nineteenth century in Lombardy, so much that Todeschini had been his pupil. When he returned from the Libyan War, he exhibited his impressions from Africa at the “Società Artisti e Patriottica” and received the gold medal. Subsequently he devoted himself to painting moral-patriotic subjects and to the design of advertising posters. Although his profession was architect, he soon moved to Cortenova in the province of Como, where he dedicated much of his time to painting and painted especially flowers, still lifes, and landscapes of the Valsassina. His painting is pervaded by a refined poetic and elegant sensibility, solid in the mastery of the technical means of drawing and color, following the Lombard landscape painting school of the second half of the nineteenth century. Todeschini, due to his shy character, rarely exhibited in solo or public exhibitions. Because of this, reconstructing his catalogue and his artistic biography is difficult. He died in Cortenova on March 8, 1969.
Provenance: private collection; Milan, Italy
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