page_title: Arturo Viligiardi
section_title: Training
hierarchical_section_title: Arturo Viligiardi / Life / Training
caption_attribution_description: La negazione di Pietro
context_page_description: Arturo Viligiardi was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and urban planner.
  His heirs still own several of his sketches, drawings and notes. His work was rediscovered after featuring in Siena tra Purismo e Liberty, a 1988 exhibition in Siena.
context_section_description: He was born on via dei Maestri in Siena to Giuseppe, a repair worker on the railways, and Giuseppina Fallani. The sculptor Giovanni Dupré recognised Arturo's artistic vocation and invited him to join evening classes at the La Stella drawing school. In 1882 Viligiardi took the courses at the Accademia di belle arti di Siena, where he studied under Luigi Mussini and Alessandro Franchi. In 1884 his professor G. Bandini agreed to collaborate with him on paintings for Orvieto Cathedral and then further paintings on two rooms in prince D'Ambrò's villa in Naples. Viligiardi won first prize in the nude and drawing categories of the annual competition at the Accademia back in Siena. In 1888 he won the Biringucci prize for a painting entitled The Arrest of Corradino of Savoy and a prize for another entitled The Denial of Saint Peter, now in the Accademia in Siena. Both works were of the Risorgimento-historical school, inspirated by Franchi's art.
caption: Arturo Viligiardi, The Denial of St Peter
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