A World's Fair in Italy: Turin 1911

De Carolis, Adolfo

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Name:	De Carolis, Adolfo
Gender:	Male
Birth:	January 6, 1874 Montefiore dell’Aso
Death:	February 7, 1928 Roma
Description:	Adolfo de Carolis (also, Karolis) studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Bologna, from which he graduated in 1892. He worked as a painter (especially murals), interior designer, decorator, xylographer (wood engraver), illustrator and photographer. In 1892 he was awarded a scholarship to attend courses in decorative painting at the "Museo Artistico Industriale" in Rome, where he became a follower of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement and one of the most popular representiatives of the Art Nouveau (Liberty) style in Italy. He created murals for the Villa Brancadoro in San Benedetto del Tronto, the ballroom of the Palazzo della Provincia in Ascoli Piceno, the Consiglio Provinciale in Arezzo, and the great hall of the Palazzo del Podestà in Bologna. He designed the Baptismal Font at the Cathedral of Ajaccio (Corsica) and supervised the restoration of the Borgia apartments in the Vatican. He is also known for his stained glass and mosaics at the Villa Puccini in Torre del Lago. He is probably most known, today, for his illustrations of books by Giosue' Carducci, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Giovanni Pascoli. In his later years, he also designed all kinds of ephemera such as bookplates, woodcuts, theatrical sets, posters, calendars, postcards, advertisements, commercial labels, and certificates. In 1901, he was granted a chaired position at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. In 1909 he was appointed Knight of the Order of tthe Crown of Italy. In 1915-17, he taught at the Accademia delle Belle Arti of Brera and in 1922 he accepted a teaching post at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Rome. He died prematurely in Rome at the age of 54, on the 7th of February 1928. The Adolfo De Carolis rooms at the ‘Polo Museale di San Francesco’ Museum in Montefiore displays five hundred of his finest works of art. Selected References: A.M. Comanducci. Dizionario illustrato dei pittori, disegnatori, e incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei. Vol. 2. Milano: Leonilde M. Patuzzi, 1962. 558-59. Luigi Servolini, Dizionario illustrato degli incisori italiani moderni e contemporanei. Milan: G. Görlich, 1995. 251-54.
Subjects:	People
Places:	Montefiore dell’Aso Comune (municipality) in the Provincia di Ascoli Piceno in the Marche region, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of the city of Ancona, and 25 kilometres (16 mi) northeast of Ascoli Piceno. Roma Rome became the focus of hopes of Italian reunification when the rest of Italy was reunited under the Kingdom of Italy with a temporary capital at Florence. In 1861, Rome was declared the capital of Italy even though it was still under the control of the Pope. During the 1860s, the last vestiges of the Papal States were under the French protection Napoleon III. And it was only when this was lifted in 1870, owing to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, that Italian troops were able to capture Rome entering the city through a breach near Porta Pia. Afterwards, Pope Pius IX declared himself as prisoner in the Vatican, and in 1871 the capital of Italy was moved from Florence to Rome. Rome is the current capital of Italy.
Photographs:	De Carolis, Adolfo
Portraits:	Adolfo De Carolis autoritratto \| Adolfo De Carolis' Self Portrait