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Trento Longaretti
Trento Longaretti | |
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Born | (1916-09-27)27 September 1916 Treviglio (BG), Lombardy, Italy |
Died | 7 June 2017(2017-06-07) (aged 100) Bergamo, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | Brera Academy |
Known for | Painting, mosaic, fresco, stained glass |
Spouse | Elsa Ferrari (married 1945) |
Children | Serena (1946), Franco (1948), Maddalena (1954) |
Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italian painter.
He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina and Marino Marini.
Longaretti stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as a centenarian.
His oil paintings have been described as dense and oily like those of Paul Cézanne, and his style having similarities to the fantasy settings of Marc Chagall and "pictorial culture" of Egon Schiele. His still lif