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SILVIO GIULIO ROTTA (Venice 1853 - 1913) TWO STUDIES OF MALE HEADS
Black chalk; 310 x 210 mm.

Silvio Rotta studied under his father Antonio and at the Venetian Academy, specializing in genre painting. From the late eighties his art deeply changed, moving toward a kind of social realism, documenting the psychological discomfort of individuals in prisons and mental hospitals.