Ettore Tito

Ettore Tito was an Italian painter and sculptor. Born in Southern Italy, he moved to Venezia in 1867 with his family, where he attended the Academy and revealed his style with the painting “Pescheria vecchia”, from 1887.

Among his works there are portraits and landscapes, as well as marine, mythological and religious subjects. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he also taught, and among his followers there were the painters Galileo Cattabriga and Raffaele Boschin. In Venezia he made many frescoes, the best known of which was in the big ballroom of the Palazzo Martinengo Volpi di Misurata.

Many of his paintings are in private collections but some are on permanent display in various museums. At the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston there is “Breezy Day in Venice” (1891); at the Paris Musée d’Orsay there are “Chioggia” (1898) and “Il bagno” (1919); at New York Brooklyn Museum there is “Oxen Plowing” (1911); at Sydney Art Gallery of South Wales there is “L’aria e l’acqua” (1922); and at the Museo de Arte Italiano in Lima there is “L’onda” (1902). In Italy other works are in museums in Venezia, Genova, Milano and Roma.