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Antonio Dugoni (1 June 1827 –9 June 1874) was an Italian painter.

Life and career

Antonio Dugoni was born in

Cividale del Friuli Cividale del Friuli (, locally ; ; ) is a town and (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Udine, part of the North-Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The town lies above sea-level in the foothills of the eastern Alps, ...

into a poor family. He began to study painting in 1841 in Udine and then continued his studies at the Accdademia di Belle Arti in

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with

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and

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. In 1845 he won a first prize for artistic invention which earned him an annual subsidy from the city of Cividale. After he completed his studies, he specialized as a painter of historical works, altarpieces and portraits. Suffering from alcoholism and mental illness, Dugoni died at 47 years of age at the Hospice of St. Mary in Cividale. Many of his works were stored in the city and were destroyed during

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Works

Selected works include: *''David'' (1847), International Gallery of Modern Art,

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, Venice *''Our Lady of Sorrows'' (1848), St. Peter's *''Portrait of King Vittorio Emanuele II'' (1866), Modern Art Gallery,

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, Florence

References

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