Teodoro Matteini (

Pistoia Pistoia (; ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about north-west of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typic ...

, 1753 -

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, 1831) was an Italian painter, mainly of historical and religious subjects in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

His father, Ippolito Matteini, born 1720, was a decorative painter and was the teacher of the design in the public schools of Pistoia. He was Tedoro's first influence. Under the patronage of, he moved to Rome to work in the studio of Domenico Corvi, and later worked with

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, until he could establish his own studio. He painted in Rome for

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. He was active in Bergamo, Milan, and Venice. In 1802 at Venice, he was elected professor of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1804, or design and in 1807 became professor in the new academy. Matteini was able to restore to the academy a large collection of stucco and terracotta models collected by the abate Filippo Farsetti. He is best known for his many pupils, including Giovanni Andrea Darif of Udine, Bartolomeo Ferracina of Bassano, Giovanni Busato of Vicenza, Murari of Florence, Sebastiano Santi of Murano,

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and Cosroe Dusi of Venice, Giovanni De Min of Belluno, Michele Fanolli of Cittadella, Lodovico Lipparini of Bologna, and Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti. Among his masterworks are a painting of ''

Angelica and Medoro Angelica and Medoro was a popular subject for Romantic painters, composers and writers from the 16th until the 19th century. Angelica and Medoro are two characters from the 16th-century Italian epic ''Orlando Furioso'' by Ludovico Ariosto. Angel ...

'', of which Raphael Morghen made a reproductive print. (Venice) Teodoro Matteini - Portrait of a young lady with a sheet of music - gallerie Accademia.jpg, ''Portrait of a young lady with a sheet of music'' -

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery o ...

(Venice) Teodoro Matteini - Portrait of a young lady - gallerie Accademia.jpg, ''Portrait of a young lady'' -

(Venice) Teodoro Matteini - Portrait of two gentlemen in a landscape - gallerie Accademia.jpg, ''Portrait of two gentlemen in a landscape'' -

https://www.gallerieaccademia.it/ritratto-di-due-giovani-signori-un-paesaggio

References

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