Giuseppe Mentessi


Giuseppe Mentessi was an Italian painter.

Biography

He established himself as a painter in Milan, where he taught at the Brera Academy. He exhibited a tryptich of the Madonna at the Biennale in Venice of 1897. Described as having a mystic suavity and spiritual grace many of his painters center upon an emotive representation of motherhood. Innocente Cantinotti and Antonio Sant'Elia were among his pupils.