Occupation Italian painter Name Vittoria Cocito | Died July 1, 1971 | |
Born September 16, 1891 Turin | ||
Vittoria Cocito (16 September 1891 – 1 July 1971) was an Italian painter and illustrator.
Biography
Born in Turin into an upper-middle-class family, she was not allowed to attend the Academy, considered at the time “not suitable for young women”; nevertheless, she studied painting privately with Cesare Ferro. Cocito begun at the Promotrice delle Belle Arti (Promoter of Fine Arts) in Turin in 1911, with Portrait of a Lady, where she will exhibit several times in the course of time. She also exhibited at the Permanente in Milan, in Naples, at the Amici dell’Arte ("Friends of art") in Turin and at the Roman Secession receiving prizes and awards.
As an illustrator she engaged mainly in books for children such as Andersen’s tales, Il fanciullo di Galilea (The child of Galilee) and Credere (Believe). In 1913 she met the painter Domenico Buratti, whom she married, despite the objections from her family, in 1920 from whom she had three daughters: Vanna, Chiaretta and Lella.
She died in Turin on 1 July 1971.