SARTORIO, GIULIO ARISTIDE. - Painter, b. in Roma on 11 Feb. 1860, d. there 3 Oct. 1932.
A pupil of his father Raffaele, S. gained extensive experience in the museums and galleries of Roma, although he matured and established himself between 1880 and 1890 in that fervent Roman intellectual milieu in which D’Annunzian literary posturing and realist investigations were strangely combined. The subjects of his first paintings, following a fleeting Fortuny experience, such as Malaria of 1882, exhibited in Roma, the Figli di Caino, exhibited in Parigi in 1889, and subsequently the Gorgona and the Eroi and the Diana di Efeso, exhibited at the Venice International Exhibition of 1897 and now in the Roman Gallery of Modern Art, reveal the fruit of those aesthetic orientations. But S., who produced his best work in certain landscapes of the Roman countryside, also attempted large-scale composition, not only in the frieze of the Chamber of Deputies with the Storia d'Italia dai Comuni al Risorgimento, but also in paintings of a sacred character, such as Cristo benedicente l'umanità in the church of Lucinico and the cartoons for the mosaics of the cathedral of Messina, the latter work interrupted by the painter’s death.