Luigi lucioni biography
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The son of a coppersmith, Luigi Lucioni was born on November 4, 1900 in Malante, a small town 30 miles north of Milan. As a child his ability to draw was recognized and he was sent to the local art school.
When he was ten years old, Lucioni came to the United States with his family, and five years later he was studying art in night classes at the Cooper Union. In 1919, Lucioni enrolled at the National Academy of Design while supporting himself as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines.
Luigi Lucioni was an Italian-born American painter and printmaker best known for his detailed portraits, still lifes, and landscapes of the Vermont countryside.After three full years at the National Academy, Lucioni received a fellowship to The Tiffany Foundation that enabled him to spend two months at Laurelton Hall in Oyster Bay, New York over the summer of 1924. This initiated his first interest in landscape painting and Lucioni spent many summers in the 1920s at Laurelton Hall with his Tiffany Foundation scholarship that was extended through 1932.
In 1925 Lucioni traveled to Italy and visited museums where he studied the work of the Italian Renais
