Giovanni Colacicchi Art
1900-1992
The origins of Giovanni Colacicchi are tied to a rather important family: his grandmother Germana was a descendant of Caetani della Torre (in fact the artist signed his first works with the double surname Colacicchi Caetani) while his grandfather was the painter Scipione Vannuttelli. The radically catholic environment in which he grew up and the classical studies undertaken in his youth were fundamental, permitting him, in fact, a profound knowledge of religious texts and developing in him a strong interest in literature which accompanied him throughout his entire career.
Of Latium origins, he approached painting after his move to Florence in 1916 entering into contact with Garibaldo Cepparelli, Raffaello De Grada and frequenting the Caffe Giubbe Rosse, meeting place for the intellectual elite, where he met the man he would deem his real master, Francesco Franchetti. Many were his suggestions regarding painting, which ranged from Renaissance artists to Futurists, from Cézanne to Hans von Marées.
Colacicchi was endowed with a multifaceted personality and was always in search of new stimuli, engaging himself in various cultural and social activities. He took part, in fact, in many exhibitions in Italy and abroad, taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and many times fought in defense of the art and of its respect. He maintained friendships with prominent personalities in the art world and critics including Giorgio De Chirico, Libero Andreotti, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Del Bravo and Bernard Berenson, but also of literature like Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale. This inclination of his towards writing, manifested already in adolescence with his choice of a classical high school, accompanied the entire lifetime of Colacicchi, he dedicated himself also to poetic activity and founded in 1924 “La Rivista di Firenze” and in 1926 “Solaria”.(Biography provided by GALLERIA MARLETTA)
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Artist: Giovanni Colacicchi
Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Nude Drawing Mid-20th ink on paper
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a ink on paper study of a Nude lady, portrayed while she’s folding on herself, with the head laying down, touching her t...
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Signed G. ColacicchI Male Nude Portrait Charcoal Drawing dated 1924
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This is drawing is signed and dated on the bottom right side "Colacicchi Firenze 1924".
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Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Landscape painting dated 1943 oil wood
By Giovanni Colacicchi
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The painting is signed on the bottom left Colacicchi 43
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Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Nude Drawing Psyche 1939 charcoal paper
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, signed at the right bottom corner Colacicchi, is a study for the painting Psyche, exhibited for the first time in 1939 at the Ussi Prize-planned by the Florence Academy ...
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1930s Other Art Style Giovanni Colacicchi Art
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Signed Giovanni Colacicchi Female Portrait 1950s pencil pen on paper
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
The drawing, signed at the right Colacicchi, is a pen and pencil on paper portrait of a gloomy lady with vaporous hair.
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Italian Cartoon Drawing Allegory River God 1960s pencil on paper
By Giovanni Colacicchi
Located in Florence, IT
Preparatory Cartoon for a lunette that was part of the decoration of the former Commercial Bank in Florence, now venue of the Stefano Ricci's shop, done by Giovanni Colacicchi in the 1962.
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