Filippo Prosperi (

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, July 21, 1831- 1913) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred subjects, painted in a Neoclassical and Nazarene styles.

Biography

His family had hoped he had chosen a career as a doctor, and for that purpose he was sent to Rome with his paternal uncle for an education. In

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, he enrolled in philosophy and mathematics at the school of the Apollinare. But he soon gravitated to painting, and worked in the studio of

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for about six years. In 1857, he was awarded the Clementine Prize for best painting of a human figure for a competition. He completed some designs of works of Raphael in the Vatican that were used for engravings. He also was commissioned to paint frescoes for the churches of the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Divino Amore and of

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in Rome. In collaboration with

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, he decorated the church of

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. He was then commissioned in 1862 to fresco the cupola of the restored Vignola Basilica of Santa Maria della Quercia near

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. In 1872 when the

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, refused to reform itself into a national institute, the government founded the Institute of Fine Arts at Ripetta. Prosperi was named professor of design and figure. Prosperi also was made honorary associate of various regional academies in Ialy, and named knight, then commendatore of the

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. Among his pupils were Umberto Coromaldi,

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, Fausto Vagnetti,

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and Giuseppe Zanli.Province of Rome website.

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Photograph of "The Transfiguration"
at the Church of San Salvatore in Onda. 1831 births 1913 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists 20th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub