Pio Joris

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La fuga di Papa Eugenio IV , 1883

Pio Joris (born June 8, 1843 in Rome ; † March 6 or 7, 1921 there ) was an Italian painter .

Pio Joris attended the Accademia di San Luca from 1856 to 1864 , completed his studies with Vertunni and in 1866 exhibited the painting Roman country girl, giving a shepherd to drink . In 1867 the rural scene Greetings of the Virgin Mary followed , in 1868 he exhibited the paintings A Wedding in Palombara , Sabina , A Hasty Meal and A Concert in Genazzano .

At the Munich exhibition in 1869, Joris received a gold medal for Sunday morning in front of the Porta del Popolo in Rome .

In 1869 Joris visited Venice, Paris and Munich, in 1870 he traveled to London to study and stayed in Spain from 1871 to 1872. In 1872 he completed the Saladad (Spanish dance).

In 1873 he executed various motifs from the area of ​​Rome and sent the return from the alms-giving , for which he received a medal of honor, to the Vienna exhibition. In 1875 he sent the parish priest to the Paris Salon as an antique dealer , in 1876 with the return of the orphans and the watercolor baptism in Roma Priora .

The national exhibition in Naples in 1877 brought After the Blessing and Forio d'Ischia , the Parisian international 1878 The Baptism in Ischia and the Via Flaminia . Of his other pictures we should also mention:

  • Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, on the banks of the Tiber
  • the escape of Pope Eugene IV (1883)
  • Patrician children and orphans
  • an 18th century antique dealer.
  • the poor soldier
  • the odalisque
  • Dawn in the Roman Campagna
  • the bride from the province of Rome

Joris belonged to the modern direction in Italian painting, which, under the influence of Marià Fortuny , combined a witty, almost sketchy technical execution with the piquant liveliness of the representation of popular life.

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