Costanzo Angelini (22 October 1760, Santa Giusta,

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- 22 June 1853,

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) was an Italian painter, engraver, and restorer of the Neoclassical style. Angelini costanzo

Biography

While in Rome, he became of follower or

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and Raffaello Morghen. When he moved to Naples in 1790, he became popular for his Neoclassic paintings, and is known for having engraved the Greek Vases of the

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collection (1795). He was patronized as a portrait painter by the aristocracy and court. In 1813 he became superintendent and restorer for the Museo Borbonico. Later, he became a professor of design with the Real Accademia delle Belle Arti of Naples and, in 1841, he was named their secretary.

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and Giuseppe Marsigli were among his pupils. His son,

Tito Angelini Tito Angelini (1806–1878) was an Italian sculptor and leader of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he was born and died. Biography Fountain of the River Amenano in the Piazza del Duomo, Catania His father, Costanzo Angelini, born ...

, became a sculptor who followed the Neoclassic-Romantic style of

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. His daughter Teresa Angelini (born 1803) was also a painter.Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti
1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 26.

Sources

Italian Treccani Encyclopedia entry.''Vasi dipinti del museo Vivenzio disegnati da Costanzo Angelini nel 1798''

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