Umberto Ongania

Umberto Ongania (Venice 1867–1942) was an Italian painter, mainly of vedute of his native city.

Biography

Ongania painted both watercolors and oils. He exhibited in 1887 at Venice, La Porta della Carta, and in 1888 at Bologna, Il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. He continued to paint until the first decades of the twentieth century.[1]

He was one of the many illustrators who collaborated in the illustration of a book on the Basilica of San Marco, with text by Camillo Boito[2] He is the first son if the book's editor Ferdinando Ongania.[3]

He married Elena Belozerskij, the daughter of Ivan Ivanovic Belozerskij.[4]

References
  1. Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 337.
  2. The Basilica of S. Mark in Venice: illustrated from the points of view of Art and History., Translated by William Scott, 1888.
  3. Mariachiara Mazzariol, Ferdinando Ongania editore in San Marco, Venezia, Marsilio, 2008 and Id., Ferdinando Ongania 1842-1911 editore in Venezia. Catalogo, Venezia, Lineadacqua, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, 2011.
  4. Lettere (1878-1928) by Giulio Salvadori.


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