Umberto Coromaldi

Umberto Coromaldi (September 21, 1870 – October 5, 1948) was an Italian painter and educator, active mainly in his native city of Rome.

Biography Umberto Coromaldi was born on September 21, 1870, in Rome, to parents Luisa and Vincenzo Celli. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, then remarried painter Filippo Indoni, who encouraged young Coromaldi to paint.

He then attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, where he studied drawing under Filippo Prosperi. Subsequently, at the age of twenty-two, he met the Neapolitan painter Antonio Piccinni and also Antonio Mancini whose studio Coromaldi frequented. Pan Yuliang, Youssef Kamel, Aurel Ciupe, and Ragheb Ayad.

Rome International Exposition in 1911 the artist participated, as well as a Lancellotti (Mountain Shepherds), with a series of panels that made up the figurative decoration of the pavilion of the fishery. He was a master of painting at the Royal House and in 1911 painted a portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele III.

Coromaldi was prolific and successful, exhibiting: Sea bass (1899, St. Louis, USA and 1904, Senigallia, Italy); Happy Mother (1903, exhibited 1905, Munich); I Frattaroli (1907, Rome and 1910, Barcelona), and In the Hut (1908, Brera Academy of Milan); 1908, purchase of the painting The meal time (1908).

In 1909, 1910, 1911, he won awards in Munich, Brussels, Barcelona and Santiago, Chile; in 1912 at Naples for The Devotee (1898); and in 1915 at San Francisco for The Bass.

From 1912 to 1913 he continued to paint subjects with figures. The quantity and quality of his production decreased in later years, the number of works, from the second decade of the century, he devoted himself more and more exclusive pictures of animals. Coromaldi was president of the Academy of San Luca in Rome and member of the Brera and Academy of Parma.

The picture that marked the success of Coromaldi "Ritorno dei naufraghi ", is a work in composition and technical performance that refers explicitly to the art of Francesco Paolo Michetti. Works of Coromaldi are exhibited in galleries of modern art in Rome, Florence, Milan, Palermo, Accademia di S. Luca in Rome; Revoltella Museum in Trieste.

He died on October 5, 1948, in Rome.