Biagio Martini (5 February 1761 – 26 August 1840) was an Italian painter, active mainly in

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 inhabitants, Parma is the second mos ...

in a Neoclassical style. Biagio Martini

Biography

Biagio Epaminonda Maria Martini was born at

, to the same family as the engraver

Pietro Antonio Martini Pietro Antonio Martini (9 July 1738 – 2 April 1797) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a late Baroque style. Biography He was born at Trecasali, within the duchy of Parma, a relative of the painter Biagio Martini. Pietro's father ...

. Biagio was a pupil at the Parmesan Academy of Fine Arts under Gaetano Callani and Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari. He became a professor at the academy. At the academy, he is said to have taught design to Paolo Toschi. He married Costanza, who was also a painter and the daughter of Giuseppe Baldrighi. Giuseppe, who died in 1803, was court painter in Parma for the Bourbon Duke. Among his works are a juvenile ''Diogenes'' in the Ducal collections, and a ''Death of Socrates'' which won a prize at the academy in 1791. He painted a ''Deposition'' for the Church of the Cappuccini in Parma. He also painted a ''Saints Gervaso and Protaso'', and a ''Meeting of Pope Paul III with Emperor Charles V''. He was awarded knighthood in the Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio by the Parmesan court.Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani illustri o benemeriti nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e nelle arti
by Giovanni Battista Janelli, Genoa, 1877, pages 242.

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1787 births 1852 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Parma Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub