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Juana Romani, née Carolina Carlesimo (30 April 1867 – 1923/24) was an Italian-born French portrait painter and artists' model.

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Juana Romani
Portrait of Juana Romani by Ferdinand Roybet (c.1890).
Born	30 April 1867 Velletri, Italy
Died	1923/24 Paris, France
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

Biography

She was born in Velletri. At the age of ten, she went to Paris with her mother and stepfather, Temistocle Romani, an engineer who was seeking employment there. They settled in the Latin Quarter and she was put to work as a model at several art schools.[1] It was not long, however, before Filippo Colarossi, founder of the Académie Colarossi, took a special interest in her; inviting her to work and study at his school.

In 1882, she posed for "Diana the Huntress", a well-known sculpture by Alexandre Falguière. She also posed for Carolus-Duran, Ferdinand Roybet, who gave her lessons, and Jean-Jacques Henner, with whom she had a brief affair. At the age of nineteen "Il Romani", as she was called, decided to pursue her own career in art. That same year, she changed her first name to "Juana", the Spanish equivalent of her middle name, "Giovanna".[2]

She began to exhibit her works in 1888 at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited with them regularly until 1904. She was especially valued as a painter of female portraits, including many women from notable families, often depicting them as mythological or symbolic figures. One of her portraits was awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle (1889). In 1901, she donated 5,000 lire to the art school in her home town. Four years later, it was officially renamed the "Scuola d'Arte Juana Romani".

Her work was also well received by the critics. In 1896, Louis Gonse of Le Monde moderne [fr] declared that she was more skillful than her mentor, Roybet. She usually painted directly on the canvas, without preliminary sketching, and sold many works before they were finished.

In her later years, she became mentally unsound and was confined to a psychiatric hospital in Paris. She died there, forgotten, around 1924. Her remaining works were auctioned off at the Hôtel Drouot. Many of her paintings may be seen at the Musée d'Orsay.

Selected portraits

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  Salomé
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  Bella Donna
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  Angelica
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  La Rossa
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  Tizianella
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  La Modella
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  Leonora d'Este

References

Further reading

• Juana Romani in the french Wikipedia
• Cristina Contilli, Juana Romani (1867-1924) Modella, pittrice e scultrice della Belle Epoque, Lulu, 2016 ISBN 978-13-26870-67-6
• Gabriela Romani, Juana Romani, Blurb, 2016 ISBN 978-13-67852-38-9

External links

• "Le Tracce della Veliterna Juana Romani" @ the Università del Carnevale
• ArtNet: More works by Romani.
• Juana Romani blog

На других языках

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[de] Juana Romani

Juana Romani (geboren am 31. August 1869 in Velletri; gestorben 1923 in Suresnes)[1] war eine italienische Malerin.

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- [en] Juana Romani

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[es] Juana Romani

Juana Romani (Velletri, 30 de abril de 1867 – París, 1924) fue una pintora italiana, estudiante y modelo de Ferdinand Roybet y Jean-Jacques Henner.

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[fr] Juana Romani

Giovanna Carolina Carlesimo, plus connue sous le nom de Juana Romani, née le 30 avril 1867 à Velletri (Latium, Italie)[1], et morte le 13 juin 1923 à Suresnes, France, est une modèle et une artiste peintre italienne, active en France.

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[it] Juana Romani

Juana Romani (Velletri, 30 aprile 1867 – Suresnes, 13 giugno 1923) è stata una pittrice italiana, allieva e modella di Ferdinand Roybet e Jean-Jacques Henner.

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