Emidio Pallotta (1803–1868) was an Italian painter and architect, active mainly in his native

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in the region of

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. He studied in Rome under

Tommaso Minardi Tommaso Minardi (December 4, 1787 – January 12, 1871) was an Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Biography Mi ...

, but returned to his native town to work under Giuseppe Lucatelli. He ran a school of drawing in Tolentino, and painted portraits of townspeople now kept in city hall. He frescoed in the

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. He designed the façade of the city Hall.Tommaso Minardi e la sua scuola
by Ernesto Ovidi, page 118.

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