Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (29 August 1801 – 11 February 1870) was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style. He was also a professor at the

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Biography

Grigoletti was born at Rorai Grande, now part of

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into a large, peasant family. His paternal uncle, Don Antonio Grigoletti, together with the parish priest of Rorai Grande, arranged for him to enroll in the Accademia di Belle Arti of

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, where he was a colleague of Lodovico Lipparino. He entered the Academy in 1820, where he studied under Teodoro Matteini. In 1824, he expressed his gratitude to Pordenone for exempting him from military service by presenting the city with a copy from

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, Frederick Zandomeneghi, Tranquillo Cremona, Eugenio Prati, Gian Battista Carrer, and Eugenio Scomparini. Among his masterworks are ''Lucia at the feet of the Unnamed'' (from an episode in Manzoni's novel '' I Promesi Sposi''), ''Erminia seeing Tancredi fall bleeding from his saddle'', ''Venetian doge Francesco Foscari bids farewell to his son Jacopo'', La Pittura Veneziana.
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and the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for the Basilica of Esztergom in

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. A school in Pordenone is titled ''"Liceo Scientifico Statale Michelangelo Grigoletti". He died in Venice, aged 68.

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1801 births 1870 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters Painters from Venice Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub