Natale Schiavoni - Portretul lui Felice Schiavoni

Felice Schiavoni (1803 – 1881) was an Italian painter, depicting history,

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, and portraits. During his early career, he often collaborated with his father, the painter

Natale Schiavoni Natale Schiavoni (25 April 1777 – 15 April 1858) was an Italian painter and engraver, specializing in history and portraits. Many of his paintings depict seductive nubile women. Biography Schiavoni was born in Chioggia, near Venice, and was c ...

Biography

Felice was born in

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. He was first a pupil of his father, and he then studied at the Brera Academy at Milan, where he won a prize, and later at Venice and Vienna. He was awarded a prize and medal by Emperor Nicholas of Russia. He often painted in Venice for Russian patrons. Among his works are a ''Death of Raphael Sanzio'' painted during a period of 15 years for Emperor Alexander II of Russia, and for which he was paid 60 thousand Lire. The large canvas was a scholarly tour-de-force which included 16 portraits of famous Italian artists, assembled to grieve at the bedside of the dying painter, including Pierin del Vago,

La Fornarina The ''Portrait of a Young Woman'' (also known as ''La fornarina'') is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome. It is proba ...

, Giulio Romano,

Andrea Navagero Andrea Navagero (Venice, 1483 – Blois, 8 May 1529) was an Italians, Italian poet, orator, botanist, and official historian of the Republic of Venice. He was born to a noble family of Venice, and became a member of the Maggior Consiglio in 1504. ...

, Cardinal

Pietro Bembo Pietro Bembo, ( la, Petrus Bembus; 20 May 1470 – 18 January 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. As an intellectual of the It ...

Ludovico Ariosto Ludovico Ariosto (; 8 September 1474 – 6 July 1533) was an Italian poet. He is best known as the author of the romance epic ''Orlando Furioso'' (1516). The poem, a continuation of Matteo Maria Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'', describes the ...

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

, and

Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini (, ; 3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the ''Cellini Salt Cellar'', the sculpture of ''Perseus with the Head of Medusa'', and his autobiography ...

. He also painted a ''Miracle of St. Anthony of Padua'' and a ''Saints Simon Stock and Anthony of Padua'' for a church in Trieste; a ''Raphael and the Fornarina'' for the Tosi Gallery, Venice ; a ''Cupid'' for the Brera Gallery in Milan; a ''Christ bearing the Cross'' ; a ''Christ Asleep''; a ''Torquato Tasso reading to Eleonora''; a ''Repose in Egypt'' (1824); a ''Venus and Cupid'' (1832); a Madonna (1854) ; a ''Raphael painting the Fornarina'' (1861); and a ''Holy Family'' (1864). His wife, Regina Sfriza, died soon after Felice. His daughters Carolina and Julia were also painters, the former of landscapes, the latter of history and portraits. His brother Giovanni (1804–48) was also painter of mythology and history.Natale e Felice Schiavoni, vita, opere, tempi
by Luigi G. Sernagiotto, Tipografia Municipal of Gaetano Longo, Venice (1881)

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1803 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Painters from Venice Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub