Vintage Framed Classical Nude Lithograph Print Musicale Peter V. Bianchi

Description

Framed lithograph print sold by Windsor Art Products featuring a scene of antique courtiers watching musicians. The name Peter V. Bianchi is visible in the lower right although the title plate on the frame spell it “Bianci.” / BIO: Mr. Peter Vieri Bianchi, 80, of Sunhigh Drive, Thurmont, died Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2001, at Frederick Memorial Hospital.
He was the husband of Elizabeth Ann Thomas Bianchi.

Born Oct. 18, 1920, in Kenosha, Wis., he was the son of the late Abramo and Maria Tuci Bianchi.

He was a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, Emmitsburg.

He was a 1938 graduate of Kenosha High School. He graduated from Mizen Academy of Art, Chicago, Ill., after attending 1939-1941; Chicago Academy of Art in 1945; and American Academy of Art, Chicago, 1946-1949.

He was an apprentice artist for Haddon Sunblom, Johnson and White Art Studio, Chicago, 1949-1951. He was a fine artist, taking commissions independently, in Kenosha, 1951-1959; a staff artist, one of two, for National Geographic Society, National Geographic Magazine, Washington, 1959-1973; and a fine artist, taking commissions independently, 1974-present.

His religious paintings, many of them displayed in churches and monasteries, include Archangel Raphael and The Dead Sea Scrolls. They range in size from huge murals in church basilicas to the small The Madonna of the Airways, which hangs in the U.S. Air Force Academy chapel.

His most recent work, which is known world wide, is the drawing Our Lady of Emmitsburg.

He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in North Africa, Corsica and Italy 1941-1945.

A combination of research with art, his National Geographic Society collection was painted in coordination with noted archeologists and other specialists in locations extending to the remote corners of the world.

His National Geographic work included a series of seven paintings of the cliff-dweller Indians, published in February 1964. His Early Man Series depicted the lives of early men who lived in the Olduvai Gorge, East Africa.

He did three paintings of the Mount Vesuvius eruption that buried Pompeii, as spewed its ashes over the populous of ancient Pompeii.

In 1960, he painted the life of early Viking settlers, including a canvas depicting a famous battle between the settlers and the Indians, titled Warclubs and Stone-Tipped Arrows/Wooden Shields and Iron Swords.

Condition

Very good - Wear/chips to frame; see pictures

Dimensions

40.5” x 2” x 28.5” / Sans Frame - 35.5” x 23.5” (Width x Depth x Height)