Giovanni Guarlotti

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Giovanni Guarlotti (19 November 1869 – 9 May 1954) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Turin.

He was born in Galliate in the province of the Novara, to a well-to-do family. He first studied to become an engineer, when he enrolled in the Accademia Albertina, where he became a pupil of Demetrio Cosola, Andrea Marchisio, and Pier Celestino Gilardi.

Gilardi helped him exhibit at the Promotrice in Turin of 1894. He painted diverse subjects including portraits, figures, landscapes and animals. He was influenced by the Liberty style and by the pittura a tocchi characteristic of the style of Enrico Reycend. Guarlotti died in Turin.[1]

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  1. ^ Notes for exhibition of Solo Donna: La Figura Femminile nella prima metà del Novecento in Piemonte Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, curated by Gianfranco Schialvino; exhibition in the city of Bra in 2011, page 106.