Federico Moja (October 20, 1802 – March 29, 1885) was an Italian painter, known best for his vedute and views of interior architecture.

Biography

Born in Milan into a family of artists, Moja began studying at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1818 and became a pupil of

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at the same time. His early work is characterised by perspective urban views, monastery interiors and subjects of a historical and literary nature addressed in strict accordance with his master's teachings. A stay in Paris and trips to France between 1830 and 1834 provided new subjects, including the church of Sant Germaine that were painted repeatedly, sometimes at intervals of many years. In 1841, when

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established his position on the Milanese art scene, Moja moved to

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, where he was appointed professor of perspective at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1845. He replaced

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at that position. He began to specialise in vedute of Venice and cities in the Veneto region, which were sent regularly to the exhibitions of the Milan Academy of Fine Arts and to the Turin Società Promotrice di Belle Arti, and was probably involved in the decoration of Palazzo Reale in Venice in 1855. In 1875, at the end of his academic appointment, he retired to Dolo and continued to paint the same subjects with no variation in a now repetitive and outmoded pictorial style. He died in Dolo. Among his pupils was

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. Domenico Fadiga, a contemporary, in the acts of the Academy of Venice recalled Moja after his death, as an excellent painter for his age, but whose vedute ''became embattled by photography, a disgrace common with all the veudtisti''.Della litteratura veneziana del secolo XIV: notizie ed appunti
by Count Filippo Nani-Mocenigo, page 217.

References

* Elena Lissoni
Federico Moja
online catalogu
Artgate
by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moja, Federico 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Brera Academy alumni Painters from Venice Painters from Milan Italian vedutisti 1802 births 1885 deaths Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia 19th-century Italian male artists