Juana Romani

Juana Romani, photography by Pierre Petit

Juana Romani (born August 31, 1869 in Velletri ; died 1923 in Suresnes ) was an Italian painter.

Life

Juana Romani was born in Velletri, Italy, but came to Paris as a child, where she was a model for various artists. At the age of thirteen, the sculptor Alexandre Falguière chose her head as a model for a bust of Diana (now in the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts , Stanford ) and the painter Victor Prouvé portrayed her as Judith (private collection). Ferdinand Roybet and Jean-Jacques Henner also created several portraits of her.

Alexandre Falguière: Juana Romani as a bust of Diana
Ferdinand Roybet: Portrait of Juana Romani
Jean-Jacques Henner: Juana Romani as the reader

Later she started her own career as a painter. She became a student of Henner, took lessons from Ferdinand Roybet and attended the ladies' class of the painter Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran . Her own works are clearly influenced by these painters. She exhibited her work, mainly portraits of women and girls, successfully from 1888 to 1904 in the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français . She later suffered from mental illness and spent the last years of her life in a mental hospital. The Isa Juana Romani - IIS Cederna school is named after her in her native Velletri .

Painting by Juana Romani

Salomé
Bella Donna
Angelica
La Rossa
Titianella
Leonora d'Este

literature

Romani (R.-Carlesimo, Juana) . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 548 .
Judith Cernogora: Portraits de femmes. Point de vues, Rouen 2016, ISBN 978-2-37195-009-2 .
Marion Lagrange: Les peintres italiens à Paris dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. CTHS, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7355-0708-5 .

Web links

Commons : Juana Romani - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The year of death is also 1924, the place of death Paris. New research by Marion Lagrange, however, confirms the year of death 1923. Like the place of death Suresnes, this was also taken over by Judith Cernogora.
↑ See trova-scuole.it

personal data
SURNAME	Romani, Juana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Romani-Carlesimo, Juana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Velletri
DATE OF DEATH	1923
Place of death	Suresnes

[1] The year of death is also 1924, the place of death Paris. New research by Marion Lagrange, however, confirms the year of death 1923. Like the place of death Suresnes, this was also taken over by Judith Cernogora.

[2] See trova-scuole.it