Gottardo piazzoni biography

Gottardo Piazzoni(1872 - 1945). Gottardo Fidele Piazzoni was a Swiss-born American landscape painter, muralist and sculptor of Italian heritage, a key member of the school of Northern California artists in the early 1900s.

Born in Intragna, Switzerland, Piazzoni moved at the age of 15 to his father's dairy farm in the Carmel Valley. After training with Arthur Frank Mathews at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, Piazzoni trained for three years in Paris at the Acad�mie Julian and under Jean-L�on G�r�me.

He then returned to California to begin his career and set up his own teaching studio. Specializing in landscapes in a muted palette, most scholars count Piazzoni among the Tonalists, and was one of the most influential exponents of this style in California.

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