Achille Leonardi (ca. 1800–1870) was an Italian
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...
. Leonardi painted with oil on canvas.
Works
A representative sample of Leonardi's works include:
* Linda di Chamonnid (Chamonix) (100 x 75 cm)
* A child's bed time (98 x 74 cm)
* Hurrying Home (46 x 38 cm)
* Guido Reni painting the Portrait of Beatrice Cenci in prison
* Madonna and Child (85 x 101.5 cm)
* Young Girl in Cloister - (99.1 x 71.1 cm)
* La Condamnée à Mort
A number of Leonardi's works were reproduced in different sizes. For example, 'Linda di Chamonnid' can also be seen at the Sheraton Towers Hotel in Buenos Aires sized about 150% larger than the one listed above, which is now in a private collection in New Zealand. Similarly, there are at least two versions of 'Portrait of Beatrice' and 'Hurrying Home' in different sizes.
See also
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List of Italian painters
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art.
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*Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/1512–1571)
* Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868)
* Angiolo Achini (1850–1930)
* Pietro Adami (fl. c. 1730)
* Eugenio A ...
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1870 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian genre painters
Year of birth uncertain
Year of birth unknown
19th-century Italian male artists