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Antonio Caimi (16 April 1814 – 5 January 1878) was an Italian painter and biographer of artists, active in
Milan
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and best known for his portraits.
Biography
He was born at
Sondrio
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. He trained initially in the Accademia Carrara of
Bergamo
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under
Diotti, but then moved to study in the
Brera Academy under
Sabatelli.
He was chiefly engaged as a portrait painter, but also painted ''The Beheading of St. John the Baptist'' and ''The Return from Babylon''. He wrote a work on ''The Arts of Design, and the Lombardian Artists from 1777 to 1862'' published in
Milan
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in 1862.
He was secretary of the Brera Academy at Milan from 1860 until his death in that city.
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1814 births
1878 deaths
People from Sondrio
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
Italian art historians
Academic staff of Brera Academy
19th-century Italian male artists
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