1. Giulio Rosati was an Italian painter who specialized in Orientalist and academic scenes.
11 Facts About Giulio Rosati
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Giulio Rosati was born in Rome in 1861 into a family of bankers and militarists.
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Giulio Rosati did not follow his family's career and instead studied art at the Accademia di San Luca under Dario Querci and Francesco Podesti.
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Giulio Rosati studied with Luis Alvarez y Catala, director of the Prado Museum, Madrid.
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Giulio Rosati worked mainly in watercolour, and occasionally in oil, and focussed most of his entire painting career on Orientalist art.
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Giulio Rosati devoted himself particularly to representations of the Maghreb, that he never visited himself.
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Giulio Rosati's painting, Oriental Scene was exhibited at the Exposition di Belle Arte, in Rome in 1900.
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Giulio Rosati was part of a large group of painters, who at the time were depicting similar Middle Eastern subject matter.
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Giulio Rosati became one of the most prolific Orientalist painters of the 19th century.
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Giulio Rosati rarely participated in exhibitions, preferring to sell his works directly through art dealers.
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Giulio Rosati's son, Alberto Rosati, was an Orientalist painter.