What is Eugenio Conti?
{{Infobox artist | name = Eugenio Giuseppe Conti | image = | caption = Francesco Filippini, self-portrait | birth_name = Eugenio Giuseppe Conti | birth_date = September 16, 1842 | birth_place = [[Crema]], Italy | nationality = Italian |awards= [[Accademia Carrara di Brera]] | training = {{ubl|[[Accademia Carrara di Bergamo]]|[[Enrico Scuri]]|[[Antonio Ciseri]]}} | movement = | works = [[The boat turns the tip in Lierna Lake Como (Conti)|The boat turns the tip in Lierna Lake Como]] | death_date = 1 January 1909 | death_place = [[Milan]], Italy }} '''Eugenio Conti''' is an [[Italy|Italian]] painter. ==Life== He is a son of doctor Bernardino and Angela Ogliari. He studied [[painting]] at the [[Accademia Carrara]] of [[Bergamo]] and had [[Enrico Scuri]] as his teacher; in 1864 he moved to [[Florence]] and studied with [[Antonio Ciseri]], from 1866 he was in [[Rome]] to attend the [[National Academy of San Luca]] attending the workshop of [[Cesare Mariani (painter)|Cesare Mariani]] he remained there until 1864. In his youth he was linked to the patriots [[Garibaldi's men]]. He fought in 1866 as a volunteer among the Garibaldini, performing heroic deeds, and was taken prisoner by the Austrians in Trentino, and was incarcerated in Slovenia, he could only return to his homeland following an exchange of prisoners. Later in 1874 he lived between Milan in Crema and married his cousin Zoe Fontana, with whom he had four children, discovering the village of Lierna on [[Lake Como]] thanks to a family of high nobility, where he would then spend many years in holiday, finding in that environment the inspiration for numerous works. ==Works== He made paintings for the churches of [[Vaiano Cremasco]], [[Credera]], [[San Giovanni Battista]] and [[Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Croce|Santa Maria della Croce]] in Crema, for Palazzo Bonzi and villa Poma in [[Biella]]. He took part in the industrial and artistic exhibition in [[Cremona]], in a similar exhibition in [[Turin]] and in the industrial exhibition [[Milan]]. In 1901 he was a