Plinio Nomellini

Plinio Nomellini (6 August 1866 – 8 August 1943) was an Italian painter in the Divisionist style.

Biography He was born in Livorno to Coriolano Nomellini, a customs official, and his wife Cesira née Menocci. In 1883 and 1884, he attended the municipal school of arts and crafts and took drawing lessons from Natale Betti. Thanks to his recommendations, in 1885 he was able to enroll at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and studied under Giovanni Fattori.

In the following years he had several exhibits; at the "Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts" (1886), where he exhibited a portrait and a landscape called An Olive Grove, and at the Academy (1887), where he exhibited The Meeting and The Tombolo. Also at the Academy (1888), he exhibited a Portrait of Nina Van Zandt and The Haymaker. That same year, at the Society, he displayed the following paintings: In the Sun, The Strike; The Journey is Finished; Wild Flowers; Mouth of the Calambrone, and The Summer of San Martino. He also took part in the Exposition Universelle of 1889.

In 1890 he moved to Genoa and lived there until 1902. During that time, he focused on watercolors.

After World War I, what had been a quiet rural area became more developed so, in 1919, he moved to Florence, where he focused on landscape painting, making numerous trips to Capri and Elba.

Selected paintings