page_title: Francesco Menzio
section_title: Later years
hierarchical_section_title: Francesco Menzio / Career / Later years
caption_attribution_description: English: Nudo disteso su fondo rosso
context_page_description: Francesco Menzio was an Italian painter.
context_section_description: In the succeeding years Menzio immersed himself in painting. In 1956, together with Felice Casorati, he was commissioned to paint a fresco depicting the Life of Santa Caterina for the church of San Domenico in Cagliari and in 1958 with the help of his student Piero Martina he painted the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Genoa. In 1951 he started teaching painting at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, and the same year he was awarded the Prize of the Italian Republic given personally by the President of the Italian Republic and friend Luigi Einaudi ("Premio del Presidente della Repubblica"). In 1960 he was elected National Academician by the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome.
  Francesco Menzio died in Turin on 28 November 1979, and is buried with his wife Ottavia Cabutti in Bossolasco.
caption: Nudo disteso su fondo rosso, 1928
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