Carlo Balestrini (March 24, 1868 – February 10, 1922) was an Italian painter. His best-known works are Impressionist landscapes with animals, especially horses.Online museum of the artistic patrimony of the Hospital of Varese , short biography.
Biography Born to a wealthy family in Albese near Milan, Carlo Balestrino studied at the Brera Academy under Giuseppe Bertini.
Among his works are: Cavallanti di ritorno; Paesaggio (1900, Milan mostra dell’Ottocento Lombardo); Abel (symbolist work which gained the premio Gavazzi prize at the 1897 Triennale of Milan);Lombardia Beni Culturali Painting of Abel, now at Museum of Como. Portrait of Emilia Rizzi vedova Daccò; La calata della neve (1905, Biennale of Venice); Impressione invernale - Darsena di Milano (1906, National Exposition of Milan); Il “Porto di Milano” - Effetto di neve (1914, Biennale of Venice); Le slitte (1908, Brera); Stalla di vacche alla fattoria (1910, National Exposition of Milan).Istituto Matteucci short biography. Balestrini also painted for the parish church of Santo Redentore and San Francesco of Cortenuova.Article of Viganò novel .
The author Erminia Mimma Viganò has published a novel titled Note nell’aria, whose protagonist's life intersects with that of the painter.Casate online article.
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