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Landesio, Eugenio
(b Venária Reale, 27 Jan 1809; d Rome, 29 Jan 1879). Italian painter, printmaker, teacher and writer, active in Mexico. He was a pupil of the Hungarian painter Károly Markó (i) and studied at the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome. There he met the Spanish Catalan painter Pelegrín Clavé, who in 1854 proposed to the governing body of the Academia de las Nobles Artes de San Carlos in Mexico that Landesio be engaged as professor for the perspective and landscape class, recommending him for his skill as a painter, engraver, lithographer and restorer. His work, which was influenced in particular by the landscapes of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, was already known at the academy, since five of his paintings had been shown in the exhibitions of 1853 and 1854 and had subsequently been bought for the academy’s collection (e.g. View of Rome, 1853; Mexico City, Pal. B.A.). Once in Mexico, Landesio taught the students to work from nature and concentrated on perfecting their drawing before allowing them to use colour. His pupils included José María Velasco and José Jiménez Aranda. From Landesio they learnt the intricacies of landscape painting, perspective and the ways of using light to create the atmosphere of a landscape. The colouring in Landesio’s own work became enriched under the influence of the Mexican landscape. He wrote two treatises, Cimientos del artista dibujante y pintor (1866) and La pintura general o de paisaje y la perspectiva en la Academia Nacional de San Carlos (1867). In 1877 he left Mexico.
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