Alessandro Milesi
Italian (1856-1945)
Alessandro Milesi was a Venetian genre painter. He studied under Napoleone Nani at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts from 1869 to 1874 and exhibited extensively in Italy after a successful debut at the Milan Exhibition of 1881, where he showed two paintings. Milesi exhibited at every Venice Biennale from 1895 to 1935, including a solo show in 1912. He won a gold medal at the 1890 Boston International Exhibition and the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1897. His works can be seen at the Rivotella Museum in Trieste, the Modern Gallery in Munich, the National Gallery of Rome, and the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.Â
