Antonio Marini (27 May 1788 – 10 September 1861) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred subjects for churches in
Tuscany
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. He is distinct from the Antonio Maria Marini from Venice.
Biography
He was born in
Prato. Early in his career, he painted frescoes, including one depicting ''Zeus in Olympus'', for the Esterhazy Palace in
Vienna
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. He developed an anachronistic style that imitated
quattrocento
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painters, learned in part from his activity restoring such works. He is described by 1836 by the contemporary
Luigi Mussini as having begun to paint ''Madonnas weakly imitated after the neo-purism of the (pre-Raphaelite) Germans'' such as
Overbeck and his associates.
Among his frescoes are those depicting: ''Sacred and Profane Music, Poetry, and a Choir of Putti'' (1852) in a salon of the house of count Guicciardini and in the
Palazzo Martelli in
Florence
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. He painted the frescoes of the ''Life of St Anne'' for the chapel dei Giuntini in
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Places of Italy Municipalities
* San Giuseppe Jato, in the Province of Palermo, Sicily
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. Among his canvases in oil is one of the ''Virgin about to embrace her Jesus as a child'' (1843) and a ''Glory of the Virgin'' (1847) for the church of
Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato.
Marini was employed in restoration (1840) of the frescoes in the
Palazzo del Podesta of Prato.
His wife, Giulia Marini, painted landscapes and still-life.
Palazzo Pretorio in Prato
collections. He died in Florence.
References
Antonio Marini on Treccani.it
1788 births
1861 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Tuscany
Italian neoclassical painters
19th-century Italian male artists
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