Achille Leonardi (ca. 1800–1870) was an Italian
artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...
. Leonardi painted with oil on canvas.
Works
A representative sample of Leonardi's works include:
* Linda di Chamonnid (Chamonix) (100 x 75 cm)
* A child's bed time (98 x 74 cm)
* Hurrying Home (46 x 38 cm)
* Guido Reni painting the Portrait of Beatrice Cenci in prison
* Madonna and Child (85 x 101.5 cm)
* Young Girl in Cloister - (99.1 x 71.1 cm)
* La Condamnée à Mort
A number of Leonardi's works were reproduced in different sizes. For example, 'Linda di Chamonnid' can also be seen at the Sheraton Towers Hotel in Buenos Aires sized about 150% larger than the one listed above, which is now in a private collection in New Zealand. Similarly, there are at least two versions of 'Portrait of Beatrice' and 'Hurrying Home' in different sizes.
See also
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List of Italian painters
Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art.
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*Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/12–1571)
*Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868)
*Angiolo Achini (1850–1930)
*Pietro Adami (c. 1730)
*Livio Agresti (1508 ...
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1870 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian genre painters
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19th-century Italian male artists