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Salvatore Tonci
Read more...Italian painter, draughtsman, poet, musician, singer. Studied art in Rome and served as a guardsman in Naples. Arrived in St Petersburg in the company of the deposed King Stanislaw II August Poniatow...
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Antonio Vighi
Read more...Italian painter, draughtsman. Member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. Invited to Russia by Paul I to decorate St Michael’s Castle (1799). Academician (1806). Worked with the architect Carlo Ross...
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Pietro Antonio de Rotari
Read more...Italian painter, engraver, teacher. Studied under Robert van Auden Aerd and Antonio Balestra in Verona (1723–25), Giovanni Battista Piazzetta and Johan Richter in Venice (1725–27), Francesco Trevisan...
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