Costanzo Angelini
Costanzo Angelini (22 October 1760, Santa Giusta, Rieti - 22 June 1853, Naples) was an Italian painter, engraver, and restorer of the Neoclassical style.
Biography[edit]
While in Rome, he became of follower or Giovanni Volpato and Raffaello Morghen. When he moved to Naples in 1790, he became popular for his Neoclassic paintings, and is known for having engraved the Greek Vases of the Hamilton collection (1795).
He was patronized as a portrait painter by the aristocracy and court. In 1813 he became superintendent and restorer for the Museo Borbonico. Later, he became a professor of design with the Real Accademia delle Belle Arti of Naples and, in 1841, he was named their secretary.
Filippo Balbi, Michele de Napoli and Giuseppe Marsigli were among his pupils. His son, Tito Angelini, became a sculptor who followed the Neoclassic-Romantic style of Antonio Canova. His daughter Teresa Angelini (born 1803) was also a painter.[1]
Sources[edit]
- Italian Treccani Encyclopedia entry.
- Vasi dipinti del museo Vivenzio disegnati da Costanzo Angelini nel 1798
- ^ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 26.
External links[edit]
Media related to Costanzo Angelini at Wikimedia Commons
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