Giulio Rosati

Giulio Rosati (Rome 1857 – Rome 1917) was an Italian painter who specialized in Orientalist and academic scenes.

Giulio Rosati
The Trictrac Players, painting y Giulio Rosati
Born	1861 Rome, Papal States
Died	1917 Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Education	Accademia di San Luca
Movement	Orientalist themes

Biography

The Harem Dance

Giulio Rosati was born in Rome in 1861 into a family of bankers and militarists. He did not follow his family's career and instead studied art at the Accademia di San Luca under Dario Querci and Francesco Podesti. He also studied with Luis Álvarez y Catalá (1836-1901), director of the Prado Museum, Madrid. He worked mainly in watercolour, and occasionally in oil, and focussed most of his entire painting career on Orientalist art. He devoted himself particularly to representations of the Maghreb, that he never visited himself. His painting, Oriental Scene was exhibited at the Exposition di Belle Arte, in Rome in 1900.^[1]

He was part of a large group of painters, who at the time were depicting similar Middle Eastern subject matter. He became one of the most prolific Orientalist painters of the 19th century. Unlike other Orientalists, he never journeyed to the Middle East. He rarely participated in exhibitions, preferring to sell his works directly through art dealers.^[2]

His son, Alberto Rosati (1893–1971), was also an Orientalist painter. However, his son was far less productive than his father.

Notable paintings

• Picking the Favourite (1880)
• Arab Horsemen Conversing with Carpet Merchant
• Bedouins Preparing a Combat Patrol (1895)
• The Inspection of the New Arrivals
• A Discussion in the Desert
• A Horseman stopping at a Bedouin Camp
• Circassian Beauties Being Inspected
• Gossiping
• Arms Dealers
• The Backgammon Players
• The Chess Players
• The Carpet Merchant
• The Tric Trac Players
• Dancing in the Harem
• The Musicians
• The Wedding
• The Slave Market

Gallery

• 
  Bedouins Preparing a Combat Patrol (1895)
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  Inspecting New Arrivals
• 
  Dancing in the Harem
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  The Carpent Merchant tunis
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  The Backgammon Players
• 
  Nomads Kairouan
• 
  An Arab Market Caire
• 
  A Discussion

See also

• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

References

1. Juler, C., Les Orientalistes de l'école Italienne, [French edition], Paris, ARC, 1994, p. 138
2. Thornton, L., The Orientalists: Painter Travellers,[Edition en langue anglaise], Paris, ACR, 1994, p.160