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'''Cipriano Efisio OppoÒppo''' (2 July 1891 – 10 January 1962) was an Italian painter, stage designer, satirical illustrator, and critic. He was born in [[Rome]], the city in which he also lived, worked and died, though his father's and mother's families had both come originally from [[Sardinia]]. He was an influential and perceptive commentator and mentor in respect of the Italian art scene through the [[Fascist Italy (1922–1943) |challenges of the Mussolini years]].<ref name=CEOsecondoTreccani>{{cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cipriano-efisio-oppo_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/|title=Oppo, Cipriano Efisio |work=Enciclopedia Italiana |year=1935 |publisher=[[Treccani]], Roma |access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=CEIsecondoScuaolaRomana>{{cite web |url=https://www.scuolaromana.it/artisti/oppo.htm |work=Archivio di scuola Romana |author1=Francesca F.R. Morelli |author2=Valerio Rivosecchi |title=Cipriano Efisio Oppo: Roma 1890 - Roma 1962 - organizzatore culturale, critico d'arte, pittore, scenografo |access-date=1 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=DEIsecondoEC>{{cite web |url=https://www.ereticamente.net/2018/05/cipriano-efisio-oppo-1890-1962-lintelligenza-di-promuovere-larte-italiana-a-cura-di-emanuele-casalena.html |title=Cipriano Efisio Oppo (1890-1962). L’intelligenza di promuovere l’arte italiana |author=Emanuele Casalena |work=Sostieni la battaglia del LiberoPensiero |publisher= "EreticaMente" |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=CEIsecindoNovecento>{{cite web |title=Cipriano Efisio Oppo, Roma 1892 – 1961 |work=Archivi del Novecento, Roma |url=https://archividelnovecento.com/cipriano-efisio-oppo/ |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref><ref name=RomeLetterMW>{{cite web |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1503960.pdf |page=77, 74-77 |title=Rome Letter From Exoticism to Abstraction Through the 1930s |author1=Mario Quesada |author2=Shara Wasserman |work=The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts |year=1987 |volume=4 |publisher=Florida International University Board of Trustees on behalf of The Wolfsonian-FIU & JSTOR |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref>

The father of Cipriano Efisio OppoÒppo was Andrea Eugenio OppoÒppo, who worked for the post office. His mother, born Ottavia Sutto, ran the family home when he was small, but he was still very young in 1894, when she died.<ref name=DEIsecondoEC/> Although he was always known as "Cipriano Efisio Oppo", and the usage is respected in most subsequent historiography, the name "Efisio" does not appear on his birth certificate so was, presumably, only adopted on his behalf (or by him) at some later date.<ref name=CEIsecondoMP>{{cite web |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cipriano-oppo_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ |title=Oppo, Cipriano |author=Mattia Patti |work=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |volume=79 |year=2013 |publisher=[[Treccani]] ([[:it:Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana |Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana]]), Roma |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref> Although the relationship between father and son could sometimes be confrontational under the one-parent set-up enforced onew them by circumstances, Andrea Eugenio Òppo was devoted to his son.<ref name= ScuolaSPsecondoGP/> When he was ten Cipriano's father sent him away to a boarding school at [[Spoleto]], hoping thereby to assure the child an education appropriate to his middle-class aspirations. The boy rejected the institutional rigidities that the school sought to impose on him, however, and the arrangment was terminated after four years.<ref name=CEIsecondoMP/><ref name=ScuolaSPsecondoGP>{{cite web |page=xli |url=https://diazilla.com/doc/1013994/ |title=La Comparsa conclusionale di Giuseppe Biasi: per un’arte sarda senza complessi d’inferiorità .... Introduzione |work=Most of the page is given over to a footnote. The paragraph concerning Cipriano's childhood rebelliousness in the context of his boarding school experiences at Spoleto is approximately half-way down. |author= Giambernardo Piroddi |publisher=Diazilla.com |accessdate=18 May 2022}}</ref>