Who was Pio Joris?
Pio Joris was born in Rome in 1843.
He was a painter and engraver and belonged to the Society of Watercolor Artists in Rome created by Ettore Roesler Franz and Cipriani.
Early years
Joris studied at Rome’s Istituto di Belle Arti from 1855 to 1861, then attended the Accademia di San Luca for one year.
Seeing works by Domenico Morelli and Filippo Palizzi at the 1861 National Exhibition in Florence encouraged him to study nature and paint from life.
Encounter with Mariano Fortuny
Pio Joris met Mariano Fortuny in Rome, and the Spanish painter’s work strongly influenced him.
Joris worked with the Paris art dealer Adolphe Goupil from 1868 to 1875, probably through Fortuny’s introduction.
Paris and international recognition
During his visits to Paris, Joris became familiar with Impressionist painting. His work from this period shows affinities with that of Giuseppe De Nittis.
Pio Joris traveled to England and Spain whose distinctive features he would later evoke in his works.
In 1869 he received a gold medal in Munich for his painting Una mattina di domenica fuori Porta del Popolo (A Sunday Morning Outside the Porta del Popolo).
Joris met with success in Paris in 1875 and 1876, and in Vienna in 1873.
At another Munich Exposition in 1879, he received second prize and was decorated as a first-class knight in the Bavarian Order of St. Michael.
Pio Joris and Rome
Pio Joris represented picturesque aspects of Rome in traditional scenes of daily life and religious ceremonies like the great La processione delle ammantate di San Pietro and Il giovedì Santo nelle chiese di Roma (Holy Thursday in the Churches of Rome),
These paintings earned him a gold medal and the Legion of Honor in Paris in 1900.
He painted Rome’s ancient Via Flaminia in 1879 and 1903. He also tried his hand, with less success, at large historical pictures like La fuga del Papa Eugenio IV (The Escape of Pope Eugene IV, 1883) now in the collection of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.
His numerous works can be found at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Palazzo Braschi, the Accademia di San Luca, and many private collections in Europe and America.
Joris was also a professor, a member of various academies, and an honorary member of the watercolor associations of Brussels, The Hague, and Rome. He died in Rome in 1921 and the following year a posthumous exhibition was held of his works, including many watercolors.
Girl with Basket by Pio Joris
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