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 has always lived and worked in Milan. He attended the Brera school. A pupil of Parlanti and Carpi, he followed the nineteenth-century tradition by 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, Principessa Pignatelli D'Aragona, Gronchi, etc.). He also dedicated himself to the landscape in which the human figure is excluded or reduced to tiny spots of color. The protagonists are the lawns, the buildings, the