10 Works, Today, January 6th is Baldassare Verazzi's day, his story illustrated #005

Baldassare Verazzi (1819-1886)

Detail; An episode of the five days of Milan in 1848, before 1886

Oil on canvas

Museo del Risorgimento, Milan

Baldassare Verazzi (6 January 1819 – 18 January 1886) was born in Caprezzo, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piedmont. He studied at the Academy of Brera at Milan from 1833 to 1842, then under the Venetian Romantic painter Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) in 1851, and participated in several exhibitions in Turin and Milan.

Baldassare Verazzi (Italian, 1819–1886)Title:

The Parable of the Samaritan, c. 1854

Oil on canvas

121.5 x 94 cm. (47.8 x 37 in.)

Private collection

In 1851 he won the prestigious Canonica Prize with The Parable of the Samaritan and in 1854 the Mylius Prize with his portrait of Raphael, which was presented to Pope Julius II.

Baldassare Verazzi (Italian, 1819–1886)

L'elemosina /Alms, c. 1856

Oil on canvas

121.5 x 94 cm. (47.8 x 37 in.)

Private collection

Baldassare Verazzi (Italian, 1819–1886)

The Holy Family in Egypt
Fresco

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His works include a fresco on The life of Leonardo da Vinci, The Holy Family in Egypt, and the 1854 Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino presented by Bramante to Pope Julius II.

Baldassare Verazzi

San Vincenzo Ferreri, c. 1850

Fresco

Parish church of Turbigo

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He took his inspiration from history and religion. His masterpiece depicts a scene from the anti-Austrian uprising known as The Five Days of Milan (Fighting at Palazzo Litta). Something of a revolutionary in that he was an active supporter of the Risorgimento, it is supposed that he was in Milan in 1848 when citizens rose up against the ruling forces of the Austrian Empire, which controlled much of northern Italy. The Cinque Giornate di Milano, in March of that year, comprised five days of street fighting that eventually resulted in the Austrian garrison being expelled from the city, marking the start of the First Italian War of Independence.

Baldassare Verazzi (1819-1886)

An episode of the five days of Milan in 1848, before 1886

Oil on canvas

Museo del Risorgimento, Milan

Verazzi’s painting shows three figures sheltering behind a barricade while another aims a rifle over the barricade, presumably in the direction of Austrian troops.

Baldassarre Verazzi

Episode of pillage during the Five Days of Milan, c. 1848

Oil on canvas

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Baldassarre Verazzi

The Five Days of Milan, c. 1848

Oil on canvas

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Baldassarre Verazzi

The apparition of the Madonna to Blessed Pareto during the Genoese revolt against the Austrians

Oil on canvas

Private collection

He was hunted down by the Austrian authorities in 1848 and forced to live under severe proscriptions. He left for Argentina in 1856, where he taught and painted local personalities, scenes of everyday life and history paintings of political or military events. He also decorated the original Teatro Colón.

Between Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, he spent 12 fruitful years of his artistic career in South America, where he became one of the most appreciated and well-known painters.

Baldassare Verazzi

Battle of Pavón. Slaughter of Captain Panuzzi, c. 1862

Oil on cardboard

32 x 48 cm.

Private collection

Battle of Pavón 9/17/1861. Painting at the beginning of 1862 that represents the moment of the death of Captain Romano Pezzuti Piloni, of the Italian Legion, incorporated as an assistant to General Paunero, head of the Second Division where he formed the Legion. It occurred when he tried to snatch a flag from the enemy, receiving 2 bullets in his right side, and hours later he was killed and his belongings looted by the Federal Cavalry 

The battle was fought in the south of the province of Santa Fe on September 17 , 1861. It was a key combat in the civil wars that divided Argentina during the 19th  century . It meant the end of the Argentine Confederation, and the incorporation of the province of Buenos Aires as a dominant member of the country. More on this painting

He made paintings of high documentary value for Argentine history: The Battle of Pavón , Massacre of Uruguayan prisoners, taken in the Battle of India Muerta by Urquiza , Allegory of the Argentine Republic , Portrait of the Roman nobleman Pezzuti Pilloni , Death, dispossession and slaughter of Romano Pezzuti Pilloni in Pavón , La charidad , Black fruit seller , Argentine Sentinel , Baptism of the unborn child of Mrs. Camila O'Gorman , before going to the torture , and others.

Baldassare Verazzi

Self portrait

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 He returned to Italy and installed himself near Lake Maggiore, and the landscape of that area proved a new source of inspiration for paintings that he then produced with his son Serafino (1875–1945). He died in Lesa, aged 67. More on Baldassare Verazzi

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