Tito Lessi

Tito Lessi (1858 – 1917) was an Italian painter.

Galileo and Viviani (1892)

Biography

Lessi was born in Florence, then became a resident of Paris. He studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri.

Lessi painted a watercolor titled: L' anticamera del Papa. Charles Sedelmeyer invited him to Paris, where he painted small canvases: The Testament; Le lever du Dauphine; L'Interrogatorio (The Interrogation); and Le Lùeur, exhibited at Paris.[1] He painted an Interior of the Public Library at Florence (1889).[2]

For the editor Alinari of Florence, he made a hundred drawings for their edition of Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375).[3]

He died in Florence in 1917.

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References
  1. Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 360.
  2. Catalogue of Valuable Paintings Collected by the Late F.O. Matthiessen of New York, by American Art Association (1902), pages 61–62.
  3. Italian Wikipedia


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