Giuseppe Lavini

Giuseppe Lavini was an Italian painter and art critic.
He was born in the Piedmont, and a resident of Turin. He exhibited at Venice Portico in Liguria, and Studiosa. He excelled in seascapes and landscapes including Un rio a Venezia; Sul Po; Canal Grande, which were exhibited at Milan and Turin. In 1880 in Turin, he exhibited a genre painting titled: Le visite della padroncino; in Rome, in 1883, and Turin in 1884, he displayed a figure painting and a portrait. He had studied law, was knighted, and became secretary of the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Turin. He was also an art critic for the Gazzeta Piemontese. He wrote a biography of one of his mentors, Andrea Gastaldi In 1893 Giuseppe married Marie Toesca, by whom he had three children: Amedeo, Celestina and Adelina. His grandfather was Giuseppe Lavini senior, a professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Turin.