21 Facts About Basilio Cascella

Basilio Cascella was an Italian artist, active from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

In 1860, Cascella was born to Francesco Paolo Cascella, a tailor, and his wife, Marianna Siciliano.

Basilio Cascella then attended the Artieri night school in Pescara and worked as an apprentice in the Luigi Salomone printing plant.

Basilio Cascella's father wanted Cascella to help in the tailor shop, but the boy had little interest in becoming a tailor.

Basilio Cascella later moved to Milan where he opened a lithographic illustration factory.

Basilio Cascella exhibited some works at the National Artistic Exhibion of Turin in 1884 and at the Art Exhibition of Venice in 1887.

Basilio Cascella exhibited at shows in London and in Palermo.

Back in his hometown, Basilio Cascella resumed relations with Michetti and became part of the Convento Michetti, frequented, at the time, by Gabriele D'Annunzio, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Costantino Barbella and other well-known Abruzzese artists, writers and men of culture.

On 30 January 1895, the city council of the city deliberated the transfer of land to allow Basilio Cascella to build a lithographic and painting studio.

In 1899, after having gathered around him a cenacle of local writers and artists, Basilio Cascella published the first issue of the magazine "L'lustration Abruzzo".

Basilio Cascella remained active as he grew old and created numerous works, including the canvas for the wedding of the Prince of Piedmont at Villa Savoia in Rome in 1930, the allegorical paintings La terra e Il mare for the Government Palace of Bolzano in 1934 in collaboration with son Tommaso, The Day of Faith at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italian People and Fabbro at the Ministry of the Interior in Rome, Trebbia del Grano at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Basilio Cascella was present at various exhibitions including the Rome Quadriennale of 1931, the Fourth Exhibition of the Fascist Provincial Union of Fine Arts of Abruzzo and Molise in Campobasso in 1937.

Basilio Cascella held his last solo show in Milan in 1948.

In 1955, the annual Basilio Cascella Award was initiated in Ortona in the Province of Chieti.

When Basilio Cascella was stationed in the military at Pavia in 1880, he met Metardo Rosso and Vincenzo Irolli, and started painting.

Between the first and second series of 1905, only 10 issues were published, while in the same period the Basilio Cascella was artistic director of Tribuna illustrata [Illustrated Tribune] and the L'illustrazione meridionale [Southern Illustration].

In 1901 Basilio Cascella participated with La voce dei venti, lithograph preserved in the Pinacoteca of Chieti, at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Milan.

The Basilio Cascella collected the popular legacy of bucolic pastoral painting on majolica, and made tesserae and wall panels, such as the Monument to Andrea Bafile in the Bocca di Valle cave in Guardiagrele, Lieutenant of the Royal Navy of L'Aquila origins, which fell in 1918.

In 1924, Basilio Cascella collaborated with his son Tommaso for the construction of the shrine of Andrea Bafile in Guardiagrele.

In 1931, Basilio Cascella was present in Rome at the 1st Quadrennial Modern Art Exhibition.

Basilio Cascella Cacsella is known for the annual award for modern art that is celebrated in Pescara.