Antonio Porcelli (1800–1870) was an Italian painter. He painted both
landscape and
figures
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* Figure (wood), wood appearance
*Figure (music), distinguished from musical motif
* Noise figure, in telecommunication
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in
genre
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scenes. Some of the paintings have been described as of "historic or fantastic themes" including one titled ''Il nano misterioso nella spianata di Pietra Nera'' based on W. Scott story,
Pinacoteca Civica of Ravena. He was inscribed in 1838 in the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. Other notes describe his as a painter of
bambocciate.
Works
* A peddler
* Joseph with Jesus as a child
* IL BARBIERE, 1835
* Two octagoanl temperas on parchement with birds and animals on branches of fruit trees, 1657
References
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1800 births
1870 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian genre painters
19th-century Italian male artists
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