Luigi Crosio

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Madonna Ter Admirabilis, 1898

Luigi Crosio (born August 15, 1834 in Acqui Terme , † 1915 in Turin ) was an Italian painter . His Madonna picture Refuge of sinners is a central devotional item for followers of the Schoenstatt Movement .

Life

He studied at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arte in Turin. His daughter Carola Crosio married the mathematician Giuseppe Peano in 1887. Another daughter was named Annette Crosio.

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Crosio children's prank 1.jpg
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Crosio was a painter of genre scenes , portraits and religious scenes in the style of the 18th century. His paintings are compared with those of Lawrence Alma Tademas , Celestino Turlettis and Pier Celestino Gilardis.

The work includes motifs from popular operas and lithographs as illustrations for book and journal publications, for example for the magazine L'Arte. Crosio made a series of engravings for L'Aqua Forte - Società d'Artisti Italiani in 1870 . He also worked with the publishing company Künzli from Zurich, the last time probably in 1911.

Some works are in public collections:

  • In Turin there is the picture The Curate's Bible , oil on canvas, 51 × 69 cm.
  • One sheet from the series of engravings for L'Aqua Forte is in the Metropolitan Museum.

Schoenstatt Madonna

In 1898 Crosio is said to have painted the famous picture of the Virgin Mary. Mary is shown in a half-length figure with the baby Jesus in her arms. She looks head-on out of the picture. Mary and Jesus are lined with clouds at the bottom of the picture.

The fame of the painting did not come from the original, but from reproductions. The Marian Congregation, founded on October 18, 1914, from which the Schoenstatt Movement emerged, is said to have accepted the picture as a gift in search of a picture of Mary out of financial need. The original was discovered in Zurich in the 1960s. The picture is later named after the Schoenstatt Movement's name of Mary, Mother, Queen and Victor of Schoenstatt .

It is likely that Crosio's daughter Carola was the model for Mary's face.

literature

  • Lorenzo Zunino [Ed.]: Luigi Crosio e gli artisti ad Acqui Terme tra '800 e' 900. Acqui Terme (Al): Lizea Arte Edizioni [u. a.], 2010.
  • Nino Tagliano: Luigi Crosio: la luce dentro i suoi quadri, il buio della sua vita . In: Cuneo, provincia granda, 55.2006, 6, 41-44.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Michael Savage: "Search for traces" after the painter Luigi Crosio (1835–1915) in Turin. In: Schoenstatt.org. October 14, 2005, accessed December 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ Lorenzo Zunino: Luigi Crosio il grande pittore di Acqui. In: La Tela e l'Argilla. March 23, 2017, accessed December 29, 2018 (it-IT).
  3. ^ Metropolitan Museum
  4. ↑ In the same year, the efforts of the photographer Secondo Pia , who took pictures of the Turin shroud and thus gave new impulses for the investigation and evaluation of the relic.
  5. ↑ Schoenstatt - Mother Thrice Admirable - Mater ter admirabilis (MTA). Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  6. ^ Schoenstatt - Mother Thrice Admirable, Queen and Victor of Schoenstatt. Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Crosio, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Acqui Terme
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death Turin