Agostino Aglio (15 December 1777 – 30 January 1857) was an Italian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

, decorator, and engraver.

Biography

He was born at

Cremona Cremona ( , , ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po (river), Po river in the middle of the Po Valley. It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local city a ...

. He initially studied at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera (), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan's main public mu ...

under

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, and then traveled to

Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...

to work under Campovecchio Mantovano.Graselli, page 13. In 1803 he came to England to assist William Wilkins, the well-known architect, in the production of his ''Antiquities of Magna Graecia'' which was published in 1807. For many years Aglio was employed in the decoration of theaters, churches, and country mansions both in England and Ireland. In 1819, he was employed, along with the architect Giovanni Battista Comolli, in painting vast frescoes for the Roman Catholic Church of

St Mary Moorfields St Mary Moorfields is a Roman Catholic church in Eldon Street near Moorgate, on a site previously known as Moorfields. It is the only Catholic church in the City of London. Prior to a 1994 boundary change, the church was in the London Borough ...

, London. Between the years 1820 and 1830, he published several books on art including a ''Collection of Capitals and Friezes drawn from the Antique'' and ''

Antiquities of Mexico ''Antiquities of Mexico'' is a compilation of facsimile reproductions of Mesoamerican literature such as Maya codices, Mixtec codices, and Aztec codices, and also historical accounts and explorers' descriptions of archaeological ruins. It was ass ...

'' illustrated with over 1000 plates, drawn from the originals. He also painted a portrait of

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, which was engraved. A street in modern-day Cremona is named after the artist. He died on 30 January 1857 and was buried on the west side of

Highgate Cemetery Highgate Cemetery is a place of burial in North London, England, designed by architect Stephen Geary. There are approximately 170,000 people buried in around 53,000 graves across the West and East sides. Highgate Cemetery is notable both for so ...

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