Andrea Marchisio (Italian, 1850-1927)La danza di Salome signed 'AMarchisio' (lower left)oil on canvas77 x 98in (190.5 x 249cm)注脚ProvenancePrivate collection, Buenos Aires. Born in Turin in 1850, Marchisio studied at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti di Torino, where he specialized in genre and historical painting. From 1872 on, he started exhibiting at the Promotrice delle belli arti, a local Salon for Italian artists, in which he participated yearly until the end of the 19th century. He lived and worked most of his life in Turin but exhibited occasionally in London. While only few of Marchisio's paintings have reached the market, it is evident that he was not immune to the strong influence of the Orientalist movement that swept through Europe in the second half of the 19th Century. The present monumental painting is one of the few known examples of such subject matter by the artist. During his lifetime, Marchisio executed a number of monumental paintings with historical or literary subject matter, which were exhibited at the Promotrice in the 1880s and 1890s.Around the turn of the century, Marchisio painted windows for several churches around Turin and a series of large canvases for the Civic Theatre in Sassari, now most of them lost, except for two works that were sold at Sotheby's New York in 2001, entitled The dance begins and The dance continues.At the beginning of the 20th century, Marchisio was named Professor at the Accademia Albertina where he taught until 1921. He was extremely influential and well-regarded in the local Turinese art scene and with the Italian Royal family who commissioned portraits of King Vittorio Emanuelle III and Queen Elena.