Achille Pinelli (1809 – 5 September 1841) was an Italian painter. Born in Rome, he was the son of the painter

Bartolomeo Pinelli Bartolomeo Pinelli (November 20, 1781 – April 1, 1835) was an Italian illustrator and engraver. Life Pinelli was born and died in the Trastevere neighborhood of Rome, the son of an artisan who modeled religious statues. Pinelli was educa ...

and his wife Mariangela Gatti. Pinelli has left about two hundred watercolors painted between 1826 and 1835, preserved in the

Museo di Roma The Museo di Roma is a museum in Rome, Italy, part of the network of Roman civic museums. The museum was founded in the Fascist era with the aim of documenting the local history and traditions of the "old Rome" that was rapidly disappearing, but ...

, representing the facades of many churches in Rome. Liliana Barroero and Daniela Gallavotti Cavallero describe the paintings as "remaining useful iconographic documents for edifices that have been lost or since modified, and a frank description of the daily habits of Rome in the first decades of the nineteenth century: processions of ''sacconi'', sentenced to death; street vendors; monks; nuns; police; civilians; children's games; beggars—all animate a lively and populous city".

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* * 1809 births 1841 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian vedutisti Painters from Rome 19th-century Italian male artists People from the Papal States {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub