Giuseppe Collignon (March 2, 1778 – February 10, 1863) was an Italian painter born in Castelnuovo Berardenga. He worked in a neoclassical style, painting mainly historical subjects.

Biography

He was a contemporary of

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and Luigi Sabatelli. In 1800 he won a prize at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence for an oil painting of ''Joseph sold by his brothers''. He frescoed two rooms in the

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(Room of Psyche and Room of Prometheus). The latter is painted with frescoes of the ''Chariot of the Sun obscured by Minerva'' and ''Prometheus''. In 1811, he was named Academic Professor of Merit at the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca () is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first ''principe'' or director; ...

in Rome. One of his masterworks was ''Death of Sophonisba'' (1840, Milan). He moved to

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to direct its Academy of Fine Arts, but in 1840 left the position due to illness.Saltini, GE. He died in Florence.

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1778 births 1863 deaths Painters from Tuscany 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany Italian neoclassical painters People from Castelnuovo Berardenga Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub