The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist Heinrich Mylius in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in Milan,[1]: 17 which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco work.[2]: 155 [3] It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World War.[1]: 29
| Premio Mylius | |
|---|---|
 Heinrich (Enrico) Mylius, founder of the prize | |
| Awarded for | art prize; awards for painting in oils and for fresco painting |
| Date | 1841–1939 |
| Location | Milan, Lombardy |
| Country | Italy |
| Presented by | Accademia di Brera, Milan |
Among the recipients of the award were Salvatore Mazza (1856), Pietro Michis (1868), Vespasiano Bignami (1869), Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1870), Filippo Carcano (1878), Giovanni Beltrami, (1884) Amerino Cagnoni (1886), Francesco Filippini (1890), Egidio Riva (1902), Donato Frisia (1920) and Trento Longaretti (1939).[1]: 29 [4][5][6]
References
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- ^ [s.n.] (1856). Guida di Milano per l'anno 1856, volume XXXIII (in Italian). Milan: Giuseppe Bernardoni di Gio.
- ^ Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d'Italia, Volume 6, 1887, page 6387.
- ^ Elda Fezzi (1966). Beltrami, Giovanni (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 8. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.
- ^ Roberto Ferrari (1996). Ferrari, Giovanni Battista (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 46. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.
- ^ Ilaria Sgarbozza (2008). Mazza, Salvatore (in Italian). Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, volume 72. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2018.