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Giulio Di Girolamo Antonuzzi, painter. Born in L'Aquila degli Abruzzi, Italy, on 22 August 1902. He died in Santiago on 5 June 1998.
A self-taught artist, he demonstrated his plastic skills since he was a child, and at just fifteen years of age he was hired as a painter in various graphic companies in Rome, a period to which his first oil works also date back. Read the full biography

Giulio Di Girolamo Antonuzzi, painter. Born in L'Aquila degli Abruzzi, Italy, on 22 August 1902. He died in Santiago on 5 June 1998.
A self-taught artist, he demonstrated his plastic skills since he was a child, and at just fifteen years of age he was hired as a painter in various graphic companies in Rome, a period to which his first oil works also date back. At the same time, he studied classical, Greek and Latin culture.
In 1918 he held his first exhibition of oil paintings and the following year he obtained a Baccalaureate from the Liceo Classico in Rome. In 1922, during his military service, he painted murals in the conference rooms of the Officers' School of Barracks La Marmora in Turin. In the twenties he carried out countless jobs as a graphic designer and illustrator. In 1925 he obtained the Baccalaureate of Art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He was a restorer of Italian school paintings of the 17th and 18th centuries. He painted various murals in convents and churches, designed costumes for the opera and decorated famous restaurants.
The post-war environment in Europe led him to seek new perspectives on life in America. He emigrated to Chile in 1948 with his wife Elvira Carlini and their three children, Paolo, Vittorio and Claudio. In Santiago he opened the Girólamo Academy where he taught painting, drawing, art history, perspective, artistic anatomy and scenography. Among many other activities, he was an illustrator for the Ercilla magazine and a graphic designer.
Another notable role of his was that of director of the iconographic archive and researcher of the illustrative material of the Italian Encyclopedia.
Returning to Italy in 1972, he was artistic consultant to the Holy See and designer of liturgical vestments for Cardinal Baggio and other Vatican prelates. He also dedicated himself to the restoration of works of art and paintings. He returned permanently to Chile in 1991, a place where he had already founded a family of renowned artists.
The Chilean government granted him nationality by pardon in March 1997, a year before his death.