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43.  The FANTASIA or The Charge of the Cavalry


 Artist: Julio ROSATTI, Italian, (1853 - 1917)
 Execution date (approximate): 1904
 Téchnique: Watercolor on Cardboard, (signed lower left)
 Measures: 37 x 51 cm.
 Description: An Habitual Scene of the Cavalry charging and shooting with their rifles
 called Fantasia. A Cavalry charging and shooting.


 Biography
 Julio Rosatti was born in Rome in 1858. He was an academic painter from the School of
 Rome. He formed himself in the Academy of San Luca, where he was mentored by artists
 such as Dario Querci, Francesco Podesti and the Spanish painter Luis Alvarez Catalá.
 He painted some pieces on oil, but his main attributes are given to his use of aquarelles,
 making him one of the most important Italian aquarellists of his time. He was also one of
 the most prolific Orientalist painters of the epoch of transition from the 19th to the 20th
 century. From the beginning of his career, he was inclined towards the Orientalist theme,
 which eventually became his favourite. His most dominant scenes included places and
 persons from the Maghreb countries, all of them full of light and with many colours. There
 are no official sources of his travels to the Maghreb region, hence the deduction that he
 used photographs and other objects pertaining to the region, that could be found in Rome
 at the time, as an influence for his paintings.
 His most acknowledged and successful work was ‘The Selection of the Favourite’, theme
 of which he produced two versions. His artwork is present in museums and in public and
 private collections all over the world.
 He had a son, Alberto Rosatti, who was also an acclaimed painter. Julio died in Rome in 1917.







































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