ARTURO FERRARI Milan 1861 - 1932 Venice, Piazza San Marco Signed A Ferrari bottom left Oil on canvas, cm 35X56 An artist capable of transferring the poetic and romantic image of views, especially of Milan, onto canvas. These are flanked, albeit rarer, by some Venetian ones. Innovative is the framing of the canvas in the catalogue, the cut of which suggests that the painter made use of a photographic image, a medium that artists in those years were beginning to make use of with a certain frequency. Ferrari trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts under Giuseppe Bertini from 1877 to 1884, at the same time attending Gerolamo Induno's studio. There are seventeen works in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan, among which the Interior of the Church of Sant'Antonio in Milan, exhibited at the First Quadrennial in Turin in 1902, and the Courtyard of the former convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan are noteworthy. Well known are Pioggia d'autunno (Autumn Rain) and Della guerra in Fiandra (Of the War in Flanders), which were exhibited at the Milan Exhibition in 1906, on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Simplon Pass. Reference bibliography: S Zatti, Arturo Ferrari, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 46, Rome, 1996. ad vocem