Giuseppe Angelelli (
Coimbra
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The fourth-largest agglomerated urban area in Po ...
, Portugal, 7 December 1803 -
Florence
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, 4 November 1844) was an Italian painter.
Biography
While born in Portugal, his parents were Italian. They traveled widely to Brazil (1807), Peru (1816), France, and England. Only in 1818 did Angelelli move to
Florence
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Florence ...
to study in the
Academy of Fine Arts of Florence
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It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. Michelangelo, Benvenuto Cellini and ...
under
Pietro Benvenuti
Pietro Benvenuti (8 January 1769 – 3 February 1844) was an Italian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter.
Biography
Early life and education
Born in Arezzo in Tuscany, he was influenced by the style of Jacques-Louis David. He was a student of ...
and
Pietro Ermini. In 1827, he traveled to Egypt with a Franco-Tuscan expedition directed by the archeologists
Ippolito Rosellini and
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion (), also known as Champollion ''le jeune'' ('the Younger'; 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure ...
; where he made many drawings later engraved by in a book by Rosellini
''I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia'' Atlante, 3 volumes, Pisa (1832, 1834, 1844). He also painted portraits.
Istituto Matteucci
short biography.
Upon returning to Florence, the Grand Duke commissioned Angelelli to paint the members of the Franco-Tuscan expedition to the ruins of Thebes. Angelelli also painted African landscapes and made portraits, including that of his wife and self-portraits.
References
1803 births
1899 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Italian male painters
Painters from Florence
Italian Orientalist painters
Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni
People from Coimbra
19th-century Italian male artists
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