Gregorio Sciltian
Gregorio Sciltian (Grigor Shildian; Armenian: Գրիգոր Շիլտյան; 20 August 1900 – 1 April 1985) was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist. Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'œil compositions.[1]
Biography
He was born into an Armenian family on 20 August 1900 in Nakhichevan-on-Don (now part of Rostov-on-Don, Russia). After finishing the gymnasium in Moscow, he studied art at the Saint-Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. After the October Revolution he temporarily settled in Tiflis. Then he studied at the Academy and the Museum of Fine Arts of Vienna.
From 1923 to 1927 he lived in Rome. He participated in the Biennale of Rome in 1925 and the Biennale of Venice in 1926. Then lived in Paris and Milan. He died in 1985 in Rome.
References
- ^ Death of Gregorio Sciltian (April 1, 1985). thisweekinarmenianhistory.blogspot.am (1 April 2015)
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Use dmy dates from April 2017
- Articles containing Armenian-language text
- Commons category link is on Wikidata
- All articles with dead external links
- Articles with dead external links from January 2020
- Articles with permanently dead external links
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with ICCU identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with VcBA identifiers
- Articles with RKDartists identifiers
- Articles with ULAN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1900 births
- 1985 deaths
- Artists from Rostov-on-Don
- 20th-century Armenian painters
- Armenian portrait painters
- Italian portrait painters
- Russian portrait painters
- Trompe-l'œil artists
- Italian people of Armenian descent
- Russian people of Armenian descent