375px, ''The Death of the Son of Tacchinardi'', Montepulciano Museum Tommaso Gazzarrini (February 15, 1790 – February 7, 1853) was an Italian painter born in

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, who painted religious and historic subjects in a Neoclassic style.

Biography

He was a pupil of

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at the

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. In 1813–1814 at the academy, he won prizes for his designs of paintings of ''Hercules and Deianira'' and ''Entry of Leo X into Florence''. He then traveled to Rome after 1820 with a stipend from the Academy of Santa Agata. He painted that year a ''St Charles Borromeo goes in Milan at night to see those afflicted with plague'' for the Livornese church of San Benedetto. He relayed yearly painting essays to the Florentine Academy, including ''Diana's Hunt'' (copy of a

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoe ...

work); ''Sleeping Bacchus'' (1823); ''Tullia drives her chariot over the body of her father (

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)'' (1820); and ''Jesus' Prayer in the Garden'' (1824). After teaching at the

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in Rome, and at the

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in Bologna, in 1837, he returned to Florence. One of his pupils at the academy in Florence was

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. Among his works are canvases depicting: *'' Santa Giulia'' *''The Dying Christ'' *''

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presents

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'' *''Holy family'' *'' Archbishop Langton and Saxon, English, and Norman Barons in the Abbey of Edmonsbury demand King John to confirm

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1790 births 1853 deaths Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Painters from Tuscany Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni Artists from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany Expatriates in the Papal States {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub