Domenico Menozzi (17771841) was an

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painter of the Neoclassical period.

Biography

He was born in

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, but soon moved to Bergamo and then

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in 1801, where he was active for more than three decades as a landscape and decorative painter, but best remembered as a

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. In Reggio, he is said to have painted for the house of Vincenzo Linari and the Lawyer Bongiovanni.Memorie storiche dei Reggiani più illustri nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e nelle Arti
by Enrico Manzini; Tipografia Degani e Gasparini, Reggio Emilia (1878); page 262.

References

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