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Cosola Demetrio (1851-1895)
Demetrio Cosola lived his entire short life between Chivasso and Turin. At the age of eighteen, he entered the Accademia Albertina in Turin, where he became a pupil of Gamba, Gastaldi and Gili, and from 1883 (he was then only thirty-two), Gastaldi’s assistant. Later he taught himself at the Accademia Albertina, but preferred "to play billiards in the cafes of Turin and good Piedmontese wine". Cosola’s production, compared to his short life, is important: he painted about 200 landscapes, as many portraits, a hundred paintings of various subjects, and made many drawings and sketches. In his works, Cosola is distinguished by a particular delicacy and brightness of the colors, by the deep attention, more psychological than visual, with which he depicts the characters, even if they are not always (famous) personalities. He showed his ability to create characteristic groups of people in small paintings that are more reminiscent of Florentine painting of his time than Piedmontese painting, and in which his fellow citizens could easily recognize friends, neighbours, playmates or co-workers. However, portraits, landscapes, genre paintings and numerous drawings and sketches provide us with sufficient documentation to count Cosola among the most important figures of Piedmontese painting of the nineteenth century.
