Angelo Pietrasanta (1837–1876) was an Italian painter, mainly of historical canvases.
Biography
He was born in
Codogno, and died in
Milan. He was a pupil of
Francesco Hayez at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. In 1879, he sent to the Exhibition of Parma an oil canvas depicting ''
Lucrezia Borgia
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che d'accordo col fratello Duca Valentino, avvelena l'anfora preparata pel marito, duca d'Aragona''. At the 1872 Exhibition of Milan, he exhibited an allegorical figure depicting ''Sacred Music''.
He painted frescoes for the interior of the church of the
Incoronata in
Lodi, and the Villa Oppenheim-Cora in
Florence, Italy
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. He also painted the allegorical figure of Europa in one of the four lunettes of the octagon in the
Galleria Vittorio Emanuele
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in Milan. He painted a ''
Pico della Mirandola
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in the presence of
Lorenzo de' Medici'' for the
Royal Palace at Milan.
He was buried in the Monumental Cemetery of Milan, where
Odoardo Tabacchi completed his bust.
Italia: Alta Italia
by Luigi Filippo Augusta Bolaffio, page 169.
Sources
1837 births
1876 deaths
People from Codogno
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
19th-century Italian male artists
Brera Academy alumni
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