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Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga
Read more...Italian theatrical designer, architect, draughtsman, writer on art. Born to Francisco di Gottardo Gonzaga (theatrical painter and interior decorator) and Anna Grini (noblewoman from Belluno) in the t...
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Vincenzo Brioschi
Read more...Italian painter, lithographer, restorer, curator. Born in the family of Giovanni Brioschi in Florence (1786). Studied history painting under Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florenc...
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Alessandro Molinari
Read more...Italian painter, draughtsman. Studied at the Königlich-Preussische Akademie der Künste und mechanischen Wissenschaften in Berlin (from 1787). Worked in Vienna (1795) and Glogau (1796–97), where he de...
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Domenico Corsini
Read more...Italian theatrical designer. Father of the architect Geronimo Corsini (1808–1876). Studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna. Moved to St Petersburg (1802), where he worked for the Imperial T...
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Antonio Canoppi
Read more...Italian painter, theatrical designer, architect. Studied under Antonio Canova and worked as a theatrical decorator in Modena (1770–1805). Sentenced to death for resisting the Napoleonic invasion, but...
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