Camillo Innocenti

Place: Rome

Born: 1871

Death: 1961

Biography:

Camillo Innocenti was an Italian painter born in Rome on June 14, 1871. He studied in Lyceum and later joined the studios of Antonio Mancini in Rome and Domenico Morelli in Naples. After visiting Spain in 1901, he painted local folk subjects from Abruzzo (1904) and Sardinia (1908). At the 1903 Venice Biennale, he displayed his divisionist works with an attention to social topics. After 1906, he began to focus on painting mainly feminine figures. He was named academic at the Academy of St Luke, and in 1912, he joined the Secessione Romana. He later traveled to Paris and Monaco. Innocenti died on January 4, 1961.