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They painted Mestre:
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto, painter (Venice 1697-1768). He painted a view of Barche Square (that is the XXVII Ottobre Square of today).
P. Murani, painter. He painted Battaglia al Ponte della Campana (Treviso, Museo Civico "Luigi Bailo") about the episode of the Italian Risorgimento in Mestre of the Sortie from Fort Marghera (27 october 1848). For further informations: 1848 in Mestre.
Luigi Querena, painter (Venice 1820-1887). He painted Interno di Forte San Giuliano (Venice, Museo Correr) and Lavori d'assedio contro Forte Marghera (Venice, Museo Correr), that describe events of the Italian Risorgimento in Mestre. For further informations: 1848 in Mestre.
V. Giacomelli, painter. He painted L'abbandono di Forte Marghera, 26 maggio '49 (Venice, Museo Correr). For further informations: 1848 in Mestre.
Federico Vendramin, painter. He painted Ferretto Square about in 1875: see the painting.
M. Chicchisiola, painter. He painted Ponci Park at the end of the 19th century.
Silvio Casagrande, painter and bank clerk (Verona 1884-Mestre 1972).
Luigi Candiani, painter (Mestre 1903-1963). He often portraited Mestre: in particolare see: Ombre e luci. Mestre. Calle Nuova, 1927, oil on plywood, 55 x 55 cm, private collection; Canale e cantieri, 1932, oil on plywood, 40 x 47 cm, Ca' Pesaro, Venice; Case a Mestre (ex Parco Ponci), 1934, oil on plywood, 49 x 56 cm, Ca' Pesaro, Venice. Further informations about Candiani.
Vittorio Felisati, painter (Mestre 1912). In some of his pictures he portraited some of the most pictoresque zones of the center of Mestre, before they were erased by the building gamble. Further informations about Felisati.
Andreina Crepet Guazzo, woman painter (Mestre, ? -1984). Further informations about her biography.
Aldo Bovo, painter (Mirano 1923-Mestre 1995).
Giuseppe Miotello, painter (Mestre 1930-2002). He painted more natural landscapes than town scenery. Further informations about his biography.
Luigi Gardenal, painter (Mestre 1950). He painted Mestre in La mia cittā in forma di fiore, picture abstract but characterized by an expressive use of colour.
Luigi Voltolina, painter, sculpturer and illustrator (Valona, Albania 1942). He grew up in Mestre, he lived in Rome and, now, in Mestre. He painted in a picture the nervous quickness of the passers-by Ferretto Square, through his "dynamical expressionism" (Ivo Prandin).
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