Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italianpainter. He studied at theBrera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists including paintersAldo Carpi andPompeo Borra, and sculptorsFrancesco Messina andMarino Marini.

Longaretti stated that painting is an "elixir for long life", and continued to paint and exhibit as acentenarian.

Hisoil paintings have been described as dense and oily like those ofPaul Cézanne, and his style having similarities to the fantasy settings ofMarc Chagall and "pictorial culture" ofEgon Schiele. Hisstill life paintings have been described as "delicate and almost religious".

He became involved in the Italianfigurative art movement of the 1950s.

Heturned 100 in March 2017 and died on 7 June 2017.^[1][2]

• List of Italian painters

• Longaretti, Trento; Veca, Alberto (1996).Trento Longaretti: excursus : Longaretti da Brera alla Carrara. Galleria Lorenzelli.Bergamo: Galleria Lorenzelli.
• Possenti, Amanzio (1991).L' arte lombarda a Sirmione: quattro pittori contemporanei nella città di Catullo: Consadori, Di Prata, Ferlenga, Longaretti (in Italian). Credito Bergamasco (Sirmione branch), Assessorato alla Cultura. Flash Edizioni.
• Conversazione con il pittore Trento Longaretti: Trento Longaretti al Sacro Monte di Varese. Museo Baroffio e del Santuario. Mariani Artigrafiche. 2005.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• "Lettera del Papa Giovanni Paolo II agli Artisti"[Letter of Pope John Paul II to artists] (in Italian). Libreria Editrice Vaticana. 1999. Retrieved27 September 2014.

• Trento Longaretti, a book about the artist published by Galleria Lorenzelli (Bergamo)
• Gatti, Chiara (13 October 2002)."Longaretti naturalista inquieto"[Longaretti a restless naturalist].La República (in Italian). Retrieved27 September 2014.
• "I 100 anni di Trento Longaretti"[The 100 years of Trento Longaretti] (in Italian). L'Eco di Bergamo. 29 January 2016. Retrieved9 February 2016.

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