Domenico Pesenti Biography
Domenico Pesenti was a famous Italian painter and antiquarian, born in 1843 in Medole, province of Mantua. From a young age, Pesenti demonstrated a strong aptitude for painting and decided to enroll at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he studied under the guidance of Camillo Boito. Specializing in perspective painting, Pesenti traveled extensively throughout Italy, where he drew inspiration from views and monuments, creating numerous works that were exhibited at exhibitions in Milan, Florence and Turin. In 1877, he moved to Florence where he remained for twenty years, opening a studio on the Lungarno and coming into contact with the Pisani gallery. His subsequent production, partly carried out after moving to Mantua in 1897, includes several portraits, genre paintings with rustic views and Mantuan landscapes. In these works we can see considerable formal and thematic research, which allowed Pesenti to emerge as an innovative and modern painter. Domenico Pesenti died in Mantua in 1918.
