The bequest including drawings and works by the Catanese painter Natale Attanasio
After more than twenty years without significant acquisitions, in 1967, with the bequest of Maria Brizzi-De Federicis, the Museo Civico del Castello Ursino received 52 works, including paintings and drawings by Natale Attanasio (Catania, 1845-1923), from the artist's studio in Rome, representing the entire span of his production, from the verism with social content of the sketch "The Madwomen" that is "The Chapel of the Asylum" (1884) for the painting "Sunt lacrimae rerum", which won a prize at the 1891-92 National Exhibition in Palermo – of which the Museum possesses a replica dated 1889 donated by the author to the Municipality – to the Tasso literary theme of clear Morellian inspiration tackled in Tasso and the Cardinal d'Este, and numerous portraits from his last period.
(Luisa Paladino, Catania: la città, la provincia, le culture, edited by Nino Miuzzo, Volume I – ed. Dafni, 2005)
Natale Attanasio worked as a sub-commissioner for the decorations of the redoubt of the Massimo Bellini Theatre and the apsis of the Carmine church. In Palermo he decorated the palace of Prince Montevago and in Rome the reading room of the Senate.
XIX cent.
Around 1889
XIX-XX cent.
XIX-XX cent.
XIX-XX cent.
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