Carolis Adolfo De Biography
Adolfo De Carolis was born on 6 January 1874 in Montefiore dell'Aso in the Marche region. He was a versatile artist, being a painter, printmaker, xylographer and photographer. He was most famous for his illustrations for the works of Pascoli and D'Annunzio, for which he collaborated with the main publishing houses of the time. De Carolis graduated from the Academy of Bologna and subsequently obtained a scholarship from the Pio Sodalizio dei Piceni, moving to Rome to follow courses at the school of pictorial decoration and learn about the Last Supper "in arte libertas".
In 1901 he obtained the chair of Ornamental Arts at the Academy of Florence, where he had the opportunity to meet the major cultural personalities of the time, especially the men of letters. De Carolis approached graphics and illustration, collaborating with numerous magazines and editions of prestigious publishing houses such as Zanichelli, Marzocco and Bemporad.
In 1915, De Carolis was called to the chair of decoration at the Brera Academy in Milan, and then moved in 1917 to the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna. In 1922 he returned definitively to Rome to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts. During his career, he continued to dedicate himself to painting, creating frescoes and tempera paintings in the buildings of the Province of Arezzo and Ascoli Piceno and the frescoes in the chapel of San Francis in Padua. In 1926 he created the stained glass window and mosaic in Giacomo Puccini's chapel in Torre del Lago.
In addition to being a great artist, De Carolis was also a talented photographer. His images of the Piceno coast are considered of great artistic and cultural value. De Carolis was a member of the most important Academies, honored in exhibitions and cultural meetings. He died in Rome on 7 February 1928.
