Eugenio Agneni or Agnèni (

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, January 26, 1816 –

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, May 25, 1879) was an

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painter, mainly of historic canvases.

Biography

Starting in 1833 in Rome, he began working with the painters Erzoche and the painter Beretta of Bergamo., and finally studying with Francesco Coghetti in Rome. In 1847, helped decorate the throne room of the Palazzo Quirinale with frescoes. He also painted frescoes in the Villa Torlonia in Porta Pia. He painted episodes in the life of San Vicenzo di Paola for his chapel in Montecitorio. Agneni joined the insurgency that lead to the brief

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in 1849. When the papal government was restored, Agneni was forced to flee, and he went first to Savona, then Genoa (where he frescoed the Palazzo Rocca), then Florence, then Paris, and finally London, where he painted mythologic themes the ceiling of the Queen's loggia in the

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and

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. In 1859 and 1866, he returned to Italy to join the Garibaldini, in the quest for Italian independence and unity. He then returned to Florence, and finally to Rome in 1870–1871. In Rome, he was named by Pope Pius IX to be Capitain of the Civil Guards. With the entry of the Papal States into the state of Italy, he continued to work for the City of Rome. He painted a ''Departed Spirits of Great Florentines Protest Foreign Invasions'' once at Museo Civico of Turin.''Cyclopedia of painters and paintings'', Volume 1, 1913, edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, page 16.

Notes

*See also obituary in Emporium journal.

References

1816 births 1879 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Artists from the Papal States Italian male painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub