{"id":7840,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/francesco-senise\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:49","slug":"francesco-senise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/francesco-senise\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Senise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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F<\/span>ra<\/span>nc<\/span>esco Senise<\/span>, a renowned contempo<\/span>ra<\/span>ry Arbëresh painter, was born in <\/span>Lungro<\/span>, Cosenza (Calabria). He completed his pri<\/span>ma<\/span>ry and secondary education in his hometown before studying at “<\/span>Ma<\/span>gna Grecia Di Catanzaro” University. Much of his artistic work is ded<\/span>icated to his native country, capturing the surrounding environment with vib<\/span>ra<\/span>nt <\/span>landscapes<\/span> and port<\/span>ra<\/span>ying ordinary people, particularly Arbëresh women and g<\/span>ra<\/span>ndmothers. His paintings are cha<\/span>ra<\/span>cterized by a rea<\/span>li<\/span>stic style, with a dominant use of red, symb<\/span>o<\/span>li<\/span>zing both the fighting spirit of the Arbëresh people and their suffering and thirst for freedom. Other important colors in his <\/span>works reflect the local Byzantine t<\/span>ra<\/span>dition of <\/span>Lungro<\/span> and the influence of the nearby <\/span>Salge<\/span>ma<\/span> mine. Senise dedicates part of h<\/span>is artistic output to the miners and their hardships, driven by deep-rooted memories from his childhood. He was particularly captivated by stories from his uncle about the challenging <\/span>li<\/span>ves of miners and the sculptures at the “Camillo Vaccaro” elementary s<\/span>chool he attended, which depicted the ext<\/span>ra<\/span>ordinary efforts of salt workers burdened by heavy stones. His intense focus on the miners’ suffering quickly garnered the attention of critics, allowing him to <\/span>exhibit<\/span> regularly at a national level in Italy and i<\/span>nternationally at significant art centers and fairs across Europe, America, and <\/span>ma<\/span>ny other countries worldwide. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: Senise’s work “<\/em><\/span>Peisazh<\/span> Vjeshtor<\/span><\/em>” (“Autumn landscape”), oil on canvas, 2012<\/em>.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/www.gigarte.com\/f<\/span>ra<\/span>nc<\/span>escoseniseart\/bi<\/span>og<\/span>ra<\/span>fia<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span>F<\/span>ra<\/span>nc<\/span>esco Senise<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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G<\/span>ra<\/span><\/strong>phic<\/strong> processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Lungro of Cosenza (Calabria), Francesco Senise, a well-known contemporary Arb\u00ebresh painter, was born.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11422,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/11422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}