Enrico Tarenghi

Enrico Tarenghi (14 April, 1848 – 1938) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre and orientalist paintings.

Enrico Tarenghi
The three Graces, painting by Enrico Tarenghi
Born14 April, 1848
Rome
Died1938
NationalityItalian
EducationAcademy of St Luke, Rome
Known forPainter
MovementOrientalist

Biography

He was born and resident in Rome. He studied in the Academy of St Luke in Rome in the early 1860s.[1]

Enrico Tarenghi and Filippo Bartolini were members of the so-called Simoni group. They may have traveled to Algeria with Simoni in the early 1890s.[2]

Work

Enrico Tarenghi specialised in watercolor and orientalist scenes. He was influenced by style of the painter, Escordi. [3] Like many other members of the Italian school of Orientalist art, he made extensive use of photography in his work. For example, he used a photograph as the template for the background in his painting of a pottery shop.[4]

Tarenghi's paintings: The Return from Work and Prayer by Muslims were exhibited the first in Turin, in 1880, the latter in Milan, the next year. In Rome, in 1883, he had two canvases: Abbey of San Gregorio in Venice and Fulvia. In 1884 in Turin, he displayed an oil: Gelosia, and a watercolor: The Mother. In Livorno 1886, he exhibited Meditazione. Among his other works are: The convalescent woman; Oh, potess' io (from Faust, Act one, first scene); and the Temple of Antonio and Faustina, exhibited at Venice, in 1887. [5]

Work

Tarenghi's works are primarily focussed on scenes of everyday life and also with the architecture of Egypt and the Orient. He preferred to work in watercolours.

Select list of paintings

  • At the Shrine
  • Carpet sellers
  • The Carpet Seller by the Nile
  • Prayer by Muslims 1880
  • Conversation by the Fire. 1881
  • Praying Muslim, 1882
  • Abbey of San Gregorio in Venice and Fulvia 1883
  • Evening Prayer
  • Leaving Prayers
  • ''Worshippers in a Mosque
  • Girl with Tambourine on the Arch of Titus, Roman Forum

See also

References
  1. Studio International, Volumes 199-201, 1986, p. 51
  2. Bossaglia, R., Gli Orientalisti Italiani: Cento Anni Di Esotismo (1830-1940), Marsilio, 1998, p.55
  3. Abbiati, G., Malia d'Oriente, Lampi di stampa, 2018, p.76
  4. Jacobson, K., Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925, Quaritch, 2007, p. 71
  5. Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti, by Angelo de Gubernatis. . Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page .
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