Domenico Muzzi (1742 – 1812) was an Italian painter and professor of Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti of

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 ...

. He trained in Parma at the Academy under

Giuseppe Peroni Giuseppe Peroni (6 May 1700 – 22 September 1776) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. ''Extasis of Phillip Neri'' (1764), Santa Maria presso San Satiro, Milan Biography He was born and died in Parma, where he is said to have studied ...

. He painted frescoes for the

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and the cupola of the church of San Liborio at

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. Among his pupils were Antonio Pasini.Dizionario biografico dei parmigiani illustri o benemeriti
by Giovanni Battista Janelli, (1876) page 295-296, quoting Gazzeta di Parma, 1845, pag. 515. and Michele Plancher.

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