Giovanni Bragolin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1911-1981)
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Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy
About Giovanni Bragolin
- Bruno Amadio (15 January 1911 – 22 September 1981), popularly known as Bragolin, and also known as Franchot Seville, Angelo Bragolin and Giovanni Bragolin, was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys.
- The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead.
- They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although there is nothing specifically linking them to the Romani people. He was an academically trained painter, working in post-war Venice as painter and restorer, producing the Crying Boy pictures for tourists.
- At least 65 such paintings were made under the name Bragolin, reproductions of which were sold worldwide.
- He was not always paid royalties for the reproductions.
- In the 1970s he was found to be alive and well-to-do and still painting in Padua.
- Claims that he fled to Spain after the war, painting children from a local orphanage which subsequently burned down, appear to be an unconfirmed urban legend.
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