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Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (1868 - 1907) was active/lived in Italy, France.  Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo is known for Neo-Impressionist portrait and landscape painting, symbolism.

Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo (28 July 1868 – 14 June 1907) was an Italian divisionist painter. He was born and died in Volpedo, in the Piedmont region of northern Italy.

Pellizza was a pupil of Pio Sanquirico. He used a divisionist technique in which a painting is created by juxtaposing small dots of paint according to specific color theory.

His most famous work, The Fourth Estate ("Il Quarto Stato") (1901), has become a well-known symbol for progressive and socialist causes in Italy, and throughout Europe. The painting is shown during the opening credits of Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900 and is currently housed at the Museo del Novecento in Milan.

An earlier version is held in the Pinacoteca di Brera.

Pellizza hanged himself in 1907, after the deaths of his wife and son.

Source:
Wikipedia, 2020

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