Carlo Frigerio (5 April 1763 – 5 December 1800) was an Italian painter, and a pupil of
Santo Cattaneo.
He was mainly active in
Brescia.
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Along with Santo Cattaneo and other artists, he contributed decorations and ]fresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
s to the Cigola-Fenaroli Mansion, located between Via Carlo Cattaneo and Piazza Tebaldo Brusato in Brescia; the building was erected in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Cigola Counts of Muslone."History of the Mansion Cigola - Fenaroli - Valotti"
Casa D'Aste Capitolium. Retrieved 13 February 2008.
Federico Nicoli Cristiani wrote of Frigerio in 1807, "He had a beautiful hope to succeed in art, but death claimed him."
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1763 births
1800 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Brescia
18th-century Italian male artists
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