Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native

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Biography

Bertini fresco of Galileo Galilei and Doge of Venice

He 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 Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brera'' on the strength of a picture of the meeting between ''Dante and Fra Ilario''. He also painted the ''Triumphal entry of the allied sovereigns into Milan after the

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'' (after 1859). He also painted frescoes on a vaulted room of the residence of the Puricelli Guerra, representing the great men of the Middle Ages, backgrounded against perspectives of Gothic architecture. He painted a ''Torquato Tasso introduced to Emmanuel Philibert''; ''Death of St Joseph'' (commissioned by a parish in

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; an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for a church in Valmarana in Altavilla Vicentina; an altarpiece of ''Vision of St Francis of Assisi'' for the church of San Babila, Milan; paintings for the palazzo of Count Ernesto Turati in Milan; and frescoes for the house of Cavalier Andrea Ponti in

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representing ''

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teaching singing to a children's choir'', as well as scenes from the life of Volta, Galileo, and Columbus. Among his masterworks is the fresco decoration of the Greek-Orthodox church of

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. He painted the ''sipario'' in collaboration with Raffaele Casnedi for the theater of

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in 1862. The Sala Dorata in the Poldi-Pezzoli Museum at Milan has a series of three mural panels by Bertini at the end of the room opposite the window, the central one representing ''Painting'', ''Sculpture'', and ''Architecture'', and the two lateral ones symbolizing ''Poetry'' and ''Music''. Bertini painted decorations on the ceiling of the Dante Room. Bertini served as one of the founders and directors of this museum. Between 1848 and 1860 he was occasionally employed as an instructor in the Brera Academy, and upon the reorganization of that institution in 1860 he was placed permanently in charge of one of the two schools of painting, ( Hayez being in charge of the other), and continued to hold his professorship until the end of the 19th century.

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, Andrea Fossati,Notes for exhibition of ''Solo Donna''
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were among his pupils. Pompeo Bertini, his brother, made

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windows, sometimes using designs by Giuseppe.

References

*Modern Italian Art, Ashton Rollins Willard, 2nd edition. (1902). Page 467.

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertini, Giuseppe 19th-century Italian painters Artists from the Austrian Empire Italian male painters Painters from Milan Academic staff of Brera Academy Brera Academy alumni 1825 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Italian male artists