Giulio Gorra Italian, 1832-1884

Giulio Gorra (Cremona, Italy, 1832 – Turin, Italy, 1884)

Born in Cremona in 1832, son of Giuseppe, also a painter and decorator of backdrops and scenery for the Cremonese theatres, he attended the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, with Enrico Scuri, until 1854.

His vocation for views and landscape painting was refined during his years of training in Rome, demonstrated by the many drawings preserved in the Civic Museum of Cremona.

In 1857 he moved to Milan, where he worked as a designer and illustrator until 1859, when he began to serve among Garibaldi's volunteers.

During this period, he worked as an illustrator of various war episodes in pencil and brush, also experimenting in oleography.

He died in Turin in 1884.

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