Antonio Concioli (1739 – November 28, 1820) was an Italian painter, mainly depicting sacred subjects in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

Born in

Pergola, Marche Pergola is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the It ...

, to a family of professionals and bureaucrats, he was likely a descendant of the jurist, Antonio Concoli of

Cantiano Cantiano is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pesaro e Urbino in the Italian region Marche, located about 100 km (62 mi) west of Ancona and about 70 km (44 mi) southwest of Pesaro. The Burano Burano is an islan ...

(1602–1680). He initially trained in Bologna under

Ercole Graziani The male first name Ercole, Italian version of Hercules, can refer to: People * Ercole (name), list of people with the name House of D'Este *Ercole I d'Este (1431–1505), Duke of Ferrara *Ercole II d'Este (1508–1559), Duke of Ferrara, Modena a ...

and

Ercole Lelli Ercole Lelli (14 September 1702 – 7 March 1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. Lelli was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Pietro ...

, but soon traveled to Rome under the patronage of Cardinal

Andrea Negroni Andrea Negroni (November 2, 1710 – January 17, 1789) was an Italian Cardinal who was Cardinal-Deacon of the titular Church of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio from 1765 to 1779. Life Ancestry Negroni was born in Rome, the eldest of the two s ...

. He obtained a post as professor in the Academy of Design at the hospice in San Michele a Ripa, and for which he would also become director of the Tapestry works. In Rome, he was also a pupil of

Pompeo Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors tra ...

. He became a member of the

Academy of St Luke The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

in Rome in 1781. He painted an altarpiece for the church of

Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi The church of Saint Anthony in Campo Marzio, known as Saint Anthony of the Portuguese ( it, Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi, pt, Santo António dos Portugueses), is a Baroque Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, dedicated to Saint Anthony of Lisbon ...

in Rome. He painted a portrait of Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphilj Landi. He was also active in Rieti.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 27 (1982), entry by Vittorio Casale. He died in Rome in 1820.

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1739 births 1820 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Painters from Padua Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub