Count Lemmo Cesare Rossi-Scotti (24 February 1848 – 23 December 1926)Rossi Scotti, Lemmo, 1848-1926 at the Library of Congress, quoting La patria adolescente nei disegni guerreschi di Lemmo Rossi Scotti, 2014:p. 10 (Lemmo Cesare Rossi Scotti; b. Perugia, Feb. 24, 1848) p. 16 (d. Rome, Dec. 23, 1926) was an Italian painter, mainly of battle scenes, in a late-Romantic style.
Biography He was born in Perugia. He studied under Tommaso Minardi. Among Rossi-Scotti's masterworks are: Perrone a San Martino; Ultimi ora; and Una Ninfa nei boschi. The latter painting was awarded a silver medal all' International Exposition of Nice, and a gold medal at the Umbrian Exposition. He made copies of the Pinturicchio frescoes in the Borgia Apartments; these were commissioned by the Kensington Museum. In 1894, he made a reproduction of the frescoes in the Sala del Cambio in Perugia for that museum.Report, Volume 41, page xlii By Great Britain. Dept. of Science and Art, In 1880 he displayed several paintings in the Exposition of Turin: Carica delle guide a Mazambano (Battle of Solferino); Saroia!; Last Hour, Ulans of Bavaria repelled at Villafranca (Battle of Custoza)Book seller Maremagnum Exhibition catalogue with picture of Ultim'ora, Ulani di Baviera respinti a Villafranca Captain Roberto Perrone defends the Belvedere at the Battle of Custoza (1866). His grandiose military paintings garnered him commissions from the royal family.
In 1881 at Milan, Rossi-Scotti exhibited: Ricordi militari; and at the same exhibition in 1883: Silvia e Satiro, Tasso, Aminta; and La Ninfa dei boschi. In the 1883 Mostra of Rome, he displayed: Il colonnello Bolegno ferito nel caricare alla testa del 14° reggimento fanteria nella giornata di San Martino, e che trasportato dal suo cavallo cadde morto su un'altura di Roccoletto. Rossi-Scotti was named to many National Academies.Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 434-435. He had been a member since the late 1880s of the Artists' society, based in Rome, of In Artes Libertas.That society in 1890 also included: Vincenzo Cabianca, Onorato Carlandi, Giuseppe Cellini, Enrico Coleman, Nino Costa, Alessandro Castelli, Cesare Formili, Alessandro Morani, Norberto Pazzini, Raimondo Pontecorvo, Giuseppe Raggio, Alessandro Ricci, Luigi Serra, and Gaetano Vannicola. Giovanni Costa: His Life, Work and Times, by Olivia Rossetti Agresti (1907), page 221.
As a young painter in Rome, Rossi-Scotti had his studio on Via Margutta, but once he had gained prominence and success, he was granted the title of Count of Montepetriolo, and bought a medieval castle outside Perugia, and it was transformed into a villa.Villa or Castello Rossi Scotti in Regione Umbria website.History of Modern Italian Art, by Ashton Rollins Willard,(1900) page 419-421. He died in Rome on 23 December 1926.
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