Amerigo Bartoli

Amerigo Bartoli Natinguerra (born December 24, 1890 in Terni , † December 20, 1971 in Rome ) was an Italian painter and caricaturist .

After completing high school in 1906, Bartoli came to the Italian capital with his family and attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma there , while taking private painting lessons with Ettore Ballerini . From 1909 to 1911 he was a student of Giulio Aristide Sartorio . Study visits to Florence, Turin and Paris followed. In 1912 he received his bachelor's degree and then completed internships at Studio di Sartorio in Rome. In 1921 he visited Monaco, Berlin and Dresden, and in 1931 he traveled to London with his friend Emilio Cecchi , whose daughter Giuditta he married in 1943.

In 1936 he decorated several rooms of the headquarters of the Banca nazionale del lavoro in Rome with frescoes, and in 1939 he painted the Fresco Battesimo di Gesù in the crypt of the church of S. Giovanni Battista . In 1913 he took part in the competition of the Pensionato artistico nazionale for the first time with the painting Un gruppo di donne guarda un'adolescente nuda , and again in 1921 with Cacciata di casa . In 1922 he took part in the Fiorentina Primaverile with the group Valori plastici , in 1930 he received first prize at the Biennale di Venezia for Amici al Caffè . In 1935 he took part in the exhibition of contemporary Italian art in Paris and the Quadriennale in Rome.

From 1939 to 1960 Bartoli taught painting at the Accademia di belle arti in Rome and received a first class diploma and a gold medal for his services to the school. In 1941 he received the Third Bergamo Prize for painting and in the same year a gold medal at an exhibition in the Salón de humoristas in Madrid.

After the Second World War he continued his work as a painter and took part in the Angelicum National Exhibition of Sacred Art in Milan (1947) and the Venice Biennials in 1950 and 1952. He has received awards from the Accademia nazionale Cherubini in Florence (1950) and the Pontificia Accademia artistica dei virtuosi in Rome (1961), including the First Premio Nazionale A. Soffici .

After working as a cartoonist for magazines such as Il Selvaggio (1930), La Gazzetta del popolo (1932) and Quadrivio (1934), Bartoli contributed a weekly cartoon to Il Mondo magazine from 1949 to 1971 . As a graphic artist he created illustrations for Vitaliano Brancati's Don Giovanni in Sicilia (1952), Mandragola by Niccolò Machiavelli (1957), Doppio Melafumo by Antonio Baldini (1957), Dante's Divine Comedy and Martial's Epigrams (1965).

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SURNAME	Bartoli, Amerigo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bartoli Nantinguerra, Amerigo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter and caricaturist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Terni
DATE OF DEATH	20th December 1971
Place of death	Rome