Antonio Pio (

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, 1809 – London, 1871) was an

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painter, depicting history, literary themes, and genre pieces.

Biography

He studied in Rome at the

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under Tommaso Minardi, worked in Cesena during the 1840s, after which he moved around for many years, between the cities of Florence, Paris and London, where he died in 1871. Pio was also a portrait painter, and painted a “Pastorello” now in the Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena. He painted an ''Apotheosis of Dante'' for the Sipario of the Municipal theater of Cesena.Cesena Municipal Art Gallery
short biography.

References

1809 births 1871 deaths People from Cesena 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian male artists People from the Papal States {{italy-artist-stub