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. He studied in Rome under

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, but returned to his native town to work under

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. He ran a school of drawing in Tolentino, and painted portraits of townspeople now kept in city hall. He frescoed in the

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. He designed the façade of the city Hall.Tommaso Minardi e la sua scuola
by Ernesto Ovidi, page 118.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pallotta, Emidio 1803 births 1868 deaths People from the Province of Macerata 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists