Artwork :: Fortunino Matania (1881-1963)

Fortunino Matania - A Naumachia Battle in the Colosseum

Artist: Fortunino Matania (All)

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Title:	Fortunino Matania - A Naumachia Battle in the Colosseum
Artist:	Fortunino Matania (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	532
Likes on CAF:	4 5
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	9/28/2022
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Description

Artist: Fortunino Matania (1881-1963)
Title: A Naumachia Battle in the Colosseum
Possibly first published in 1920-30s
Published in Look & Learn magazine #4, 10 Feb 1962
Published in Drawing from History book: The Forgotten Art of Fortunino Matania, 2016
Medium: Watercolour and pencil
Size: 210 x 295mm
Signed: ‘F Matania’ at bottom
Notes: On the back of the painting, the previous owner wrote about this painting, how he saw it as a child in 1962 and later purchased it in 2017.

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Tristram Portal
Member Since 2020

1 - Posted on 9/28/2022

Very cool piece by a great artist

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

Posted on 9/29/2022

That's great creativity and imagination with how elaborate the ships are designed and placed somehow in the arena! Like a gladiator demolition derby. Fantastic painting that looks like it came from a history text.

Steel Shredder
Member Since 2022

1 - Posted on 9/29/2022

Marcus Wai wrote:

These things happened in Rome, more and more elaborate and terrible. Life was cheap. Yes this was used in an historical article. My first encounter with the work of Matania was buying the book on the Roman games called "Those About to Die" by Daniel Mannix in the 1980s. The book featured an incredible wraparound cover by him.

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