What is Silvio Poma?
{{Infobox artist | name = Silvio Poma | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1840 | birth_place = Trescore Balneario, Italy | death_date = 1932 | death_place = Turate | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] | field = [[Painting]] | training = | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = }} '''Silvio Poma''' (Trescore Balneario, 1840 - Turate, 21 October 1932) was an Italian [[painter]]. == Biography == He participates as a volunteer in the [[Second Italian War of Independence | II War of Independence]] and, later, he embarks on military life, but in [[1866]] he takes leave of the army after contracting malaria. On his return to [[Milan]] he attended the studios of [[Giovan Battista Lelli]] and [[Gerolamo Induno]], both painter-soldiers with whom he had come into contact during the military campaign of [[1859]] . He made his debut at the Fine Arts Exhibition of [[Accademia di Brera | Brera]] in [[1869]], but the first official awards came only in the middle of the following decade: in [[1876]] he won the Mylius prize of the [[Accademia di Brera|Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera]] with a canvas of historical subject set in a large natural context of romantic taste entitled ''Macbeth meets in the Dunscinane wood the massacres that predict his throne'';<ref>[https://www.lombardiabeniculturali.it/opere-arte/schede/4t010-00035/ Macbeth incontra nel bosco di Dunscinane le straghe che gli predicono il trono (da Shakespeare)]</ref> in [[1877]] one of his landscapes was purchased at the National Exhibition of [[Naples]] by [[Vittorio Emanuele II]]. He was buried in the [[Cimitero Maggiore di Milano]], where his remains were later collected in a cell. The public purchase by King [[Vittorio Emanuele II]] for his private collection will give him international fame among the royal families of the era. == Museums == * [[Galleries of Piazza Scala]], Milan * Royal Museum of the House of Savoy == Exhibition == * Fine Art