Emilio Magistretti

The first training took place inside of the Brera Academy under the guidance of R. Casnedi and F. Hayez. Later he came to Mose Bianchi  who studied with. Once the student life in 1880, the following year he participated in the National Exhibition with four “Portraits” and a historical composition, “The 9 January 1878” (that remembered the shock that had struck the Milanese announcement of the death of Vittorio Emanuele II), currently owned real. From this beginning of a great epoch activity, carried out in the shadows and silence, in all fields of painting and especially in sacred art. His paintings of religious subjects are scattered all over the world: in the churches of Africa, Asia and America. Among the main portraits, religious subjects, frescoes and various compositions of landscape or still life, are recalled: “The Marquis Louis Crivelli,” “The astronomer Father Cavalleri,” “Count Giulio Litta Modignani”; “Antonio Conte Marescalchi”; “Countess Clementina Borgia, “” Count Antonio Morelli of the People, “” Donna Laura Mantegazza, “” Monsignor Ballerini “,” Leo XIII, “” The painter Achille Formis “, in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan,” the dying Christ “, “Nativity”, “the martyrs SS. Lucia, Apollonia and Agata”, for the church of Bernareggio; “the Sorrows”, for a church of Burma, “the Martyrdom of Saint Blandina,” which was awarded the first prize World Exhibition in Guatemala in 1900, “San Mauro blesses the animals”, for the church of San Benedetto in Seregno; “Choir dell’lncoronata of Lodi.”