Nino Caffè painting
Vestments of a young priest
Nino Caffè, painting on paper, mixed media.
Description
Vestizione di un pretino (Vestments of a Young Priest)
Signed bottom center: Caffè.
The piece's measurements including the frame are inch 18 ¹/₂ x 11 ¹/₂
Young priests in 1950s Rome were one of Nino Caffè's favorite painting subjects.
Nino Caffè (1909–1975) painter, engraver. In 1938, he took part in the Venice Biennale. He spent the war period in Urbino. His house was across from the Cathedral and from the window he could see seminarians, who became his young priests. They would be his favorite subject to paint, earning him the nickname, the painter of priests.Technical Details
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