Luigi Nono (painter)

Luigi Nono (8 December 1850 – 17 October 1918) was an Italian painter, known primarily for his genre scenes depicting life among the poor.

A young Nono entered the Accademia of Venice, then under the leadership of Pompeo Marino Molmenti.

But by at the age of twenty years, he went to Polcenigo in the Friulian countryside, and he began to refine his style of landscape paintings, including Sull' Avemaria, Le sorgenti del Gorgazzo, Ritorno dai campi, and Verso sera.

For example, one of his paintings, Abbandonati exhibited at the 5th Exposizione of Venice, depicts a homeless mother and child sleeping under a church portal.

[1] In 1880 at Turin, he exhibited: La caccia ai grilli and The Fruitseller; in 1881 at Milan, he displayed a genre painting, L'Ave Maria, and others titled: La povera madre; a half-figure Autunno; and October Morning.