Vittorio Pica
Vittorio Pica , actually Vittorio Emanuele Giuseppe Vincenzo de Anna (born April 21, 1862 in Naples , † May 1, 1930 in Milan ), was an Italian art critic and writer.
Life
Vittorio was the son of a illegitimate relationship between Giuseppe Pica (1813-1887), later professor of criminal law at the University of Modena and Senatore del Regno d'Italia , and the Englishwoman Anna James, during his exile in England. His mother was initially married to the Italian Luigi de Anna. The couple named the child Vittorio Emanuele Giuseppe Vincenzo de Anna. In the second marriage, Anna James married his biological father in 1880, who adopted him; from then on he carried the name Vittorio Pica.
From 1880 Vittorio Pica studied law at the University of Naples , but soon made a name for himself as a literary critic - in 1881 with an article on Albert Glatigny and from 1882 with essays on the Goncourt brothers . He became friends with Edmond de Goncourt and wrote in Paris' La Revue indépendante (1884–1895) for Édouard Dujardin and Félix Fénéon . In his essays up to 1898, the reader Pica's Francophilia was preserved. He not only wrote about Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé , but corresponded with the latter and went to see him. Vittorio Pica was probably the first to make Arthur Rimbaud's verses known in Italy.
Vittorio Pica wrote in the 1890s for the Revue encyclopédique of the Éditions Larousse and from 1896 for Angiolo Orvietos (1869–1967) Florentine Il Marzocco .
From 1901 to 1907 Pica worked for the Venice Biennale as chief curator and in the 1920s as its general secretary. In 1926 he presented three paintings by Edgar Degas to the public at the 15th Biennale , which had been discovered by relatives of the painter in Naples.
From 1900 until his death, Vittorio Pica headed the illustrated art magazine Emporium in Bergamo . Together with Jules Chéret and Roger Marx , he developed the artistic poster further.
Pica remained loyal to his hometown of Naples; he founded with Luigi Pierro (1843-1917) and other intellectuals - such as Benedetto Croce and Francesco Saverio Nitti - in 1890 the Società dei Nove Musi (Society of the Nine Faces; with an allusion to the Muses ( muse )).
Fonts (selection)
- All'avanguardia . Naples 1890.
- L'arte dell'Estremo Oriente . L. Roux, Turin / Rome 1894 ( digitized version ).
- L'arte Europea a Venezia . Pierro, Naples 1895.
- L'arte medioevale a Venezia . Pierro, Naples 1897.
- L'arte decorativa all 'Esposizione di Torino del 1902. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1903 ( digitized ).
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Attraverso gli albi e le cartelle
- Great series. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1904 ( digitized ).
- Seconda series. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1907 ( digitized ).
- Terza series. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo undated ( digitized version ).
- L'arte giapponese al Museo Chiossone di Genova. Bergamo 1907 ( digitized ).
- Gli impressionisti francesi. Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1908 ( digitized ).
- L'arte mondiale a Roma in 1911 . Istituto italiano d'arti grafiche, Bergamo 1913 ( digitized ).
- Giuseppe de Nittis, l'uomo e l'artista . Alfieri-Lacroix, Milan 1914.
- Arte ed artisti nella Svezia dei giorni nostri . Bestetti e Tumminelli, Milan 1915.
literature
- Valerio Mariani: Pica, Vittorio . In: Enciclopedia Italiana I Appendice. Rome 1938.
- Davide Lacagnina: Pica, Vittorio. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 83: Piacentini – Pio V. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vittorio Pica in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Digitized fonts at Open MLOL
- Evidence in SUDOC
- Listing on Grove Art Online
- Entries in Arthistoricum.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pica, Vittorio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | de Anna, Vittorio Emanuele Giuseppe Vincenzo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian art critic and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1930 |
| Place of death | Milan |