Giovanni Buffa

GIOVANNI BUFFA (Casale Monferrato 1871-Milan, 1954).
"Al chiaro di luna veglione della famiglia artistica", Teatro Dal Verme di Milano, 1899.
Lithographic poster on paper.
Signed in plate.
Measurements: 144 x 102 cm; 150 x 108 cm (frame).

Giovanni "Buffa" (Giovanni Domenico) was an Italian painter, sculptor and decorator. He studied art and began his career in Italy, where he produced a variety of works, including paintings, sculptures and decorative pieces. He was known for his contributions to the genre of opera buffa, a form of comic opera popular in Italy during the 18th and 19th centuries. He worked on several opera buffa productions, including the famous Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte. He taught decoration at the Scuola d'Arte Professionale e dell'Umanitaria (1909-1914) and for some years at the Scuola Superiore d'Arte Industriale del Castello Sforzesco. In 1894 he exhibited three sketches in Milan. In 1896 he exhibited the sketches of his work "Caterina de Medici visita gli Ugonotti" in Turin. Subsequently he exhibited in Venice and Milan works that are currently in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Milan. "Persecutori e perseguitati", which consisted of a group of drawings for the illustration of the "Divine Comedy", exhibited in 1906, won the prize of the city of Milan.