Giuseppe Mentessi

He then attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Parma, with the help of a government subsidy, where his primary instructor was Giacomo Giacopelli.

He also attended a course on architecture and scenography, taught by Carlo Ferrario, who had worked with Giuseppe Verdi, and received commissions for projects at La Scala.

In 1895 he was invited to the first Venice Biennale, and presented Panem Nostrum Quotidianum, a socially conscious work dealing with the scourge of pellagra in the countryside.

He officially retired in 1924, was named a Professor Emeritus, and spent the remainder of his life devoted to landscape painting.

He was buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Certosa in Ferrara, alongside his mother, in a tomb designed by his former associate, Beltrami.