Silvio Poma

Silvio Poma (Trescore Balneario, 1840 - Turate, 21 October 1932) was an Italian painter.

 Biography 
He participates as a volunteer in the  II War of Independence and, later, he embarks on military life, but in 1866 he takes leave of the army after contracting malaria. On his return to Milan he attended the studios of Giovan Battista Lelli and Gerolamo Induno, both painter-soldiers with whom he had come into contact during the military campaign of 1859 . He made his debut at the Fine Arts Exhibition of  Brera in 1869, but the first official awards came only in the middle of the following decade: in 1876 he won the Mylius prize of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera with a canvas of historical subject set in a large natural context of romantic taste entitled Macbeth meets in the Dunscinane wood the massacres that predict his throne;Macbeth incontra nel bosco di Dunscinane le straghe che gli predicono il trono (da Shakespeare) in 1877 one of his landscapes was purchased at the National Exhibition of Naples by Vittorio Emanuele II. He was buried in the Cimitero Maggiore di Milano, where his remains were later collected in a cell.

The public purchase by King Vittorio Emanuele II for his private collection will give him international fame among the royal families of the era.

 Museums 
 Galleries of Piazza Scala, Milan
 Royal Museum of the House of Savoy

 Exhibition 
 Fine Arts Exhibition of Brera Academy, 1881
 National Exhibition of Milan of 1883
 Rome Exhibition of 1883
 Turin Exhibition of 1884
 National Exhibition of Milan of 1886
 Venice Exhibition of 1887
 Bologna exhibition of 1888
 Bologna Exhibition of 1888, with  Lierna's View of Bellagio  (named as La Punta di Bellagio)
 Fine Arts Exhibition of Accademia di Brera, 1869
 National Exhibition of Naples, 1877

References
 Elena Lissoni, Silvio Poma , online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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Category:19th-century Italian painters
Category:1840 births
Category:1932 deaths
Category:20th-century Italian painters