Alessandro Rinaldi (April 5, 1839,

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 ...

– 1890

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, ...

) was an Italian painter. He was initially trained with

Gallo Gallina Gallo Gallina (1778–1837) was an Italian painter and engraver, working in a Neoclassical style. He was active also as a lithographer. He helped Giulio Ferrario complete the volumes of ''Costumi antichi e Moderni''. He became the custodian of ...

, then in 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 Hayez, and by 1857 with

Giuseppe Bertini Giuseppe Bertini (1825–1898) was an Italian painter, active in his native Milan. Biography He studied at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli and Giuseppe Bisi, and in 1845 was awarded the ''Gran premio di pittura dell'Accademia di Brer ...

. His most prominent work was ''Volta che scopre la pila''. In 1859, he enrolled in the ''

Cacciatori delle Alpi The Hunters of the Alps () were a military corps created by Giuseppe Garibaldi in Cuneo on 20 February 1859 to help the regular Sardinian army to free the northern part of Italy in the Second Italian War of Independence. As their name suggest ...

'' and he was one of the 16 garibaldini that along with the Polish soldier Sadowski first entered Como. Upon returning to painting, he exhibited '' Volta discovers the voltaic pile (battery)'' at the Brera. ''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 415.

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