Author: Attilio Melo (Padua 1917 - Milan 2011) - Portrait of a Child Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1972 Measurements: height 65 cm; width 60 cm Born in Padua, he always lived and worked in Milan. He attended the Brera school. A student of Parlanti and Carpi, he followed the nineteenth-century tradition, studying the Impressionists in particular. Attilio Melo has also established himself internationally as a portraitist of famous people and beautiful women (Arturo Toscanini, De Gasperi, Princess Pignatelli D’Aragona, Gronchi, etc.). He also dedicated himself to landscapes in which the human figure is excluded or reduced to minuscule specks of color. The protagonists are meadows, buildings, rivers or the sea, and the technique changes compared to the portrait, becoming freer and more varied. His works are in the Presidency of the Republic, the Supreme Court of Cassation in Rome, the Museum of Post and Telecommunications in Rome, the American Embassy in Rome, the Don Sturzo Institute in Rome, the Art Gallery of the Maggiore Hospital in Milan, the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.