Nazzareno Cipriani Art

Nazzareno Cipriani, the Italian artist, studied in Rome and worked at the studio of the Neapolitan painter Achille Vertunni, alongside the painters Pietro Barucci and Pio Joris, devoting himself to historical and biblical subjects. Cipriani began exposing Venetian and Roman landscapes and scenes of genre and popular life. In 1870, at the Roman exhibition of Amateurs and Cultures, he presented A Nun Who Watered the Flowers. Attracted by the pictorial and more chromatic complexity of Mariano Fortuny, Cipriani also adopted the technique of tempera and watercolor. Cipriani also lived in the era of orientalist painting and for this, he traveled to countries in northern Africa, drawing inspiration for odalisques and dark, veiled and richly bejeweled women. He had his studio in Via Margutta, next to another orientalist, Enrico Tarenghi. In 1875, Cipriani was among the ten founders of the Roman Watercolor Association, with whom he participated in exhibitions until 1913. Cipriani sent his watercolors to the Paris Exhibition of 1878. In Rome, he was present at the National Exhibition of 1883 with L'Addio of the bride and the exhibitions of the group In art libertas of 1901 and 1902. Cipriani took part in London at exhibitions of the Royal Academy and in Rome, he became a member of the Academy of San Luca.