Felice Casorati’s search for balance between academic painting, neoclassicism and anti-classicism.

by Laura Vailati 11 August 2020

Great protagonist of the twentieth century art scene, in the period between the two wars, Felice Casorati represents an emblematic figure in the history of Italian art. Born in Novara in 1883, after graduating in law, he decided to devote himself completely to painting, which had taken the place of music in his heart after the nervous breakdown that studying had caused him. Casorati was for a long time considered ...