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Cosroe Dusi (July 28, 1808 – October 9, 1859) was an Italian painter in the Neoclassical style, active for many years in St Petersburg, Russia, painting mainly sacred and historical subjects. Dusi was nicknamed by his contemporaries the "modern Tintoretto", for his liveliness of invention and rapidity at painting.〔(Treccani Encyclopedia ) (in Italian), Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 42 (1993) by Maddalena Malni Pascoletti.〕 ==Education and early work in the Veneto and Tyrol== Cosroe was born in Venice. He enrolled in 1820 at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, where his mentor was the painter Teodoro Matteini, who had also taught the influential Hayez. At the Academy, Dusi studied alongside Michelangelo Grigoletti. After graduating in 1827, the Academy awarded Dusi a room near the school and he exhibited the large historical canvas, ''The Death of Alcibiades'',〔(Della litteratura veneziana del secolo XIV: notizie ed appunti ), by Count Filippo Nani-Mocenigo, pages 211-212.〕 followed by ''Paolo and Francesca da Rimini'', exhibited in 1831 at the Brera. In 1829 at the annual exhibition of the Accademia, he displayed ''The Nymph Salmacis seduces the innocent Hermaphroditus'', a ''Virgin and child with St John'', and two small paintings depicting scenes from writings of Gaspare Gozzi.〔Treccani Encyclopedia.〕 In 1830 he married Antonietta Ferrari, daughter and sister respectively of the sculptors Bartolomeo and Luigi Ferrari. Luigi had also studied at the Academy with Dusi.〔(Exhibition at Marostica in 2012 ): Cosroe Dusi, the adventures of an artists at the court of the Tsars. (In Italian)〕〔(Cosroe Dusi 2012 Exhibition ) reviewed for Cultura Italia by Laura Larcan.〕 In Venice, Dusi collaborated in the production of illustrations for books and lithographic series. For the journal of ''Il Gondoliere'', he made a lithographic portrait Leopoldo Cicognara, that was used in Cicognara's obituary in 1834, and was based on a prior oil painting by Ludovico Lipparini. Dusi, along with Grigoletti and Michele Fanoli, completed a series of lithographs depicting various trades of Venetians, published by Galvani. The subjects were mostly genre figures (fishmongers, chimney sweeps, etc.) or portraits (including singers, actors, and dancers).〔(MFA collections )〕 The Museo Correr of Venice has engravings and lithography by Drusi. In 1838, he painted a sipario for the Fenice Theater.〔Nani-Mocenigo, page 212.〕 He traveled through Monaco, Germany, and Russia. In 1831 he was commissioned to paint the main altarpiece depicting ''Saints Peter and Paul'' and another altarpiece of ''Virgin of the Rosary and St Dominic'' for the parish church of the same name in Sexten in Tyrol.〔 for Parish Church of S.S. Pietro e Paulo in Sexten, which this source name "Sesto" in Italian.〕 He painted ''St Luke painting the Virgin'' (right lateral altar, 1833) and the Assumption of Mary (1834, main altarpiece) of the Sanctuary of Santa Assunta of Maria Luggau in West Carinthia. He also painted frescoes on the ''Resurrection of the Dead'' for the chapel in the cemetery of Cortina d'Ampezzo.〔(Cortina d'Ampezzo ) Parish.〕 Among his other religious paintings are his ''Adoption of the Habit by St Gertrude'' (1835)〔Nani-Mocenigo, page 212.〕 for the main altar of the parish church of Mühlwald;〔. Mühlwald is also referred with the alternate Italian name "Selva dei Molini".〕 in 1836 he completed an altarpiece depicting a ''Santa Maria Assunta'' (1836) for the side altar of a parish church near Bruneck; a ''Crucifixion'' for the parish church of St Michael at Brixen; and a ''Glory of Saint Catherine'' for the main altar of the parish church of Graun im Vinschgau;〔Now in a reconstructed church.〕 and a ''Transit of St Joseph'' (1839) for the church of San Luca Evangelista in Padua.〔(of St Joseph'' ) is now in Diocesan Museum. (In Italian)〕 For the parish church of St Martin in Gsies, he painted the altarpiece depicting ''Communion of St Martin, bishop of Tours''. For the church of Santa Maria Assunta of Taufers, he painted a ''Holy Family with young St John the Baptist'' (1839). Dusi was commissioned to complete the main altarpiece of the Collegiata of Santa Maria Maggiore of the main city of the Dalmatian island of Cherso (now Cres, Croatia). A fire in 1826 had destroyed the ancient Renaissance altarpiece of Andrea Vicentino, depicting ''The Miracle of the Madonna of the Snow''. Dusi attempted to make an accurate copy (1833) of the icon. In 1834 he painted an altarpiece of ''Saints Filomena, Lucy, and Agatha'' (1834) for the Venetian church of San Martino. In 1837, he was commissioned to paint the sipario of the newly rebuilt Teatro La Fenice. The subject of the curtain, was appropriately the Apotheosis of the Phoenix, however, by 1854, it was replaced by a more patriotic scene. Drusi also painted screens for the San Samuele theater of Venice and the Nobile theater of Udine. The subject of the latter was ''Michelangelo presenting the young Giovanni da Udine to the Duke Gonzaga''. In 1838, Drusi designed and Francesco Locatelli engraved prints celebrating the visit of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria. The subjects were ''The Foundation of the dam of Malamocco'' and ''the entry into Chioggia''. For an exhibition held in the Academy to celebrate the visit, Drusi displayed seven works: ''Romeo and Juliet''; ''The Communion of St Martin of Tours'', ''(Socrates reproaches) Alcibiades among the Heterae'';〔Alcibiades among the Heterae is exhibited in the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, ()〕 ''The prayers of his bride convince Henry IV to absolve the prisoners of Calais''; a ''landscape'' and finally ''Portraits of a family'', as well as an unspecified sketch for a historical painting. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cosroe Dusi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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