Carlo Raimondi (December 24, 1809 in Bocche di Cattaro – January 5, 1883 in

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

) was an Italian engraver and painter, active mainly at Parma. Raimondi Carlo

Biography

Raimondi moved to

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as an infant, and lived there for 27 years. He studied in Reggio as a pupil of

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, then studied with Giovanni della Rocca and finally

Paolo Toschi Paolo Toschi (1788 – 30 July 1854) was an Italian draughtsman and engraver. He was born in Parma. Biography He trained in Paris under Charles Clément Bervic, and first made a reputation by a fine etching of ''Henry IV'', after Gérard. In 18 ...

at Parma (1822-1828). He became in 1848 a docent teaching engraving at the

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in Milan, until he was recruited in 1854 to direct the School of Engraving at the Parmesan Academy, where he later succeeded Toschi. He worked by his own and in collaboration with Toschi, making wood engravings of masterpieces of the galleries of Parma, Turin, and Florence. In Parma, Raimondi gathered prominent pupils:

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from the

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, Tommaso Aloysio Juvara from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, Ludovico Bigola from the Albertina Academy of Turin, Odoardo Eichens from the School of Fine Arts of Berlin. When the 1860 decree of the minister

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fused into one the Academies of Fine Arts of Parma, Modena, and Bologna; Parma was recognized as still being the premier school of engraving of the three. He also painted, mainly watercolors; again sometimes reproducing masterworks, but also portraits and genre works such as ''Canzone d’amore'' and ''Alla toilette'', displayed at the 1852 exhibition at the

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. Among his masterworks are his portraits of ''Paolo Toschi'' and ''Vittorio Emanuele II'', and his ''La Baccante'' from a painting of

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. Mostly worked in Parma. In the 1870 National Exposition of Fine Arts, he was awarded a personal merit medal.Biblioteche of Parma
, short biography.

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1809 births 1883 deaths Italian engravers 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Parma 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub