Pio Joris was born in Rome in 1843. <\/span><\/p>\n He was a painter and engraver and belonged to the Society of Watercolor Artists in Rome created by Ettore Roesler Franz and Cipriani.<\/span><\/p>\n Joris studied at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome from 1855 to 1861.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Seeing the works of Domenico Morelli and Palizzi son’s at the Italian National Exhibition<\/span> in Florence in 1861<\/b> inspired him to forgo academic painting in favor of the \u201cSchool of Resina\u201d style.<\/span><\/p>\n Pio Joris met in Rome <\/span>Mariano Fortuny<\/b>, who greatly influenced him.<\/span><\/p>\n In Paris, Fortuny introduced him to art dealer Adolphe Goupil for whom Joris worked from 1868 to 1875.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In Paris, he met De Nittis and Zandomenighi, who influenced his paintings of this period, as well as Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me and Ernest Meissonier.<\/span><\/p>\n Pio Joris traveled to England and Spain whose distinctive features he would later evoke in his works.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In 1869 he received a gold medal in Munich for his painting Una mattina di domenica fuori Porta del Popolo (<\/span>A Sunday Morning Outside the Porta del Popolo<\/span><\/i>).<\/span><\/p>\n Joris met with success in Paris in 1875 and 1876, and in Vienna in 1873.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Pio Joris represented picturesque aspects of Rome in traditional scenes of daily life and religious ceremonies like the great <\/span>La processione delle ammantate di San Pietro<\/span><\/i> (The Procession St. Peter’s Shroud, 1906) and Il gioved\u00ec <\/span>Santo nelle chiese di Roma<\/span><\/i> (Holy Thursday in the Churches of Rome), which earned him the Cross of the Legion of Honor in Paris in 1900. He painted Rome\u2019s ancient Via Flaminia in 1879 and 1903. He also tried his hand, with less success, at large historical pictures like <\/span>La fuga del Papa Eugenio IV <\/span><\/i>(The Escape of Pope Eugene IV, 1883) now in the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span><\/p>\n Joris was also a professor, a member of various academies, and an honorary member of the watercolor associations of Brussels, The Hague, and Rome.\u00a0 He died in Rome in 1921 and the following year a posthumous exhibition was held of his works, including many watercolors.<\/span><\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He was also a professor, a member of various academies, and an honorary member of the watercolor associations of Brussels, The Hague, and Rome.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":118036,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6520],"class_list":["post-118089","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags-j"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEarly years<\/b><\/h2>\n
Encounter with Mariano Fortuny<\/b><\/h2>\n
The Impressionists in Paris<\/b><\/h2>\n
Rome<\/b><\/h2>\n