Sante Cattaneo or Santo Cattaneo (8 August 1739 – 1819) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in

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. He was also called ''Santino''. He was born at

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, Italy. His parents travelled away and consigned him at age three to thirteen to his aunt. He then moved to Brescia to live with his mother, who worked in wool looms. He at first practised wood-engraving, but afterwards studied painting under

Antonio Dusi Antonio Dusi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia Brescia (, ; ; or ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the region of Lombardy, in Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the l ...

and then, with

Francesco Monti (Bologna) Francesco Monti (1685 – 14 April 1768) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque. image:Morte di sant'anna (francesco monti).jpg, ''Death of St Anne'', originally in church of San Zeno al Foro (Brescia), San Zeno al Foro, Brescia. Biography ...

. He studied in 1776 at the

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of Bologna. He settled at Brescia in 1773, and in 1810 became professor of drawing in the Art academy of that city. He died in Brescia. Among Cattaneo's pupils are

Domenico Vantini Domenico Vantini (1765 – 22 June 1825) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassicism, Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia and Mantua. Vantini was born and died in Brescia. He was first a pupil of Santo Cattaneo; he then moved to Mant ...

, Luigi Basiletti, Antonio Manenti, and Carlo Frigerio. Professor Romualdo Turini of Salò was a pupil and his biographer.G. Brunati, page 56.

Works

* Altarpiece for the parish church of San Vincenzo Diacono in

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. * ''Crucifixion of Apostle Peter'' (1783) altarpiece in presbytery of the church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Verolavecchia. * ''Last Supper'', canvas in church of San Sebastiano in Pavone. * ''Martyrdoms of Saints Andrew and Flavianus'' for parish church of Sant'Andrea in

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. * ''Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Peter and Imerius'', altarpiece for parish church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Offlaga. * ''La Riviera thanks the provveditore Marco Soranzo'', (1786) for palazzo comunale di Salò * ''Deposition'' (1808), church of

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, Brescia. * ''Madonna and child with Saints Catherine and

Angela Merici Angela Merici ( ; ; 21 March 1474 – 27 January 1540) was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic religious educator who founded the Angelines, Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in Brescia, in which women dedicated their lives to the service ...

'', (after 1815) for church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Brescia. * ''Saints Benedict and Scolastica'', ''Jesus distributes Eucharist'' and other frescos for Sant'Afra, Brescia. * ''Visitation of Mary to St Elisabeth'', church of Santa Maria ad Elisabetta, Brescia.

References

* * 1739 births 1819 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Brescia People from Salò Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub