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Italian painter
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 1855(Rome, Province of Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Death:
1 January 1921(Florence, Province of Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Biography
Introduction
Clemente Origo (1855 in Rome – 1921 in Florence) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was a resident of Florence. His subjects commonly display cattle and horses and scenes of herding in the Italian lowlands. he also painted landscapes, often exhibiting at the Promotrice of Florence and other Italian exhibitions. Among his works are Testa dì cavallo, studio dal vero; Cavalli al trotto; Mandria al pascolo; Strada di Larici, studio dal vero, Cavallino caduto (1902, Uffizi), Morte del cervo (1907), and plans for the Monument to Alexander III at St Petersburg, Russia. Origo had studied design briefly with Cesare Fracassini and with Guglielmo de Sanctis. He later dedicated himself to sculpture, working with P. Trubeckoj.