Francesco Sabatelli (February 22, 1803 – August, 1830) was an Italian painter. Born at

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

, he first trained with his father, the

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ese painter

Luigi Sabatelli Luigi Sabatelli (21 February 1772 – 29 January 1850) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence. Biography He studied in his native city and in Rome. In 1803, with the reorganizatio ...

, then later in Rome and

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. In 1823, he moved to

on the invitation of the government of Leopold II, and became a professor in the

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. His younger brother,

Giuseppe Sabatelli Giuseppe Sabatelli (June 24, 1813 – February 27, 1843) was an Italian painter. Biography Born at Milan, he first trained with his father, the prominent painter Luigi Sabatelli, who taught at the Brera Academy. In 1834, he moved to Florence ...

(1813–1843), later also served as a professor in the Accademia in Florence. Among his works were ''Pier Capponi che lacera i turpi capitoli'', ''Joseph sold by brothers at the cistern of Dothai'', and ''Creation of the Soul''. When his father Luigi left Milan to paint the ''Salone dell'Iliade'' (Hall of the Illiad) at the

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, it was his younger son, Francesco, who helped him in this work. When Leopoldo Medici saw the work, he awarded a stipend for Francesco to study in Rome and Venice Francesco went to paint a lunette in the hall where his father had worked, painting ''Hector che arsa una nave greca e cosi adempiuto il decreto dei fati, viene da Aiace Talamonio costretto a indietreggiare''. In Venice he made a copy of Titian's ''Assumption of the Virgin''. He also made a sketch of the Hayez canvas depicting a scene from the end of ''The Count of Carmagnola'' by Manzoni and designed for the church of Santa Croce the canvas of ''Sant'Antonio resurrects the dead'', finished by his younger brother

Giuseppe Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

. He died while painting ''

Ajax the lesser Ajax ( grc, Αἴας ''Aias'' means "of the earth".) was a Greek mythological hero, son of Oileus, the king of Locris. He was called the "lesser" or "Locrian" Ajax, to distinguish him from Ajax the Great, son of Telamon. He was the leader of ...

tries to save himself from the storm, and spiteful of the gods, dies in his arms of his father

Oileus In Greek mythology, Oileus or Oïleus (; grc, Ὀϊλεύς ''Oī̈leús'') was the king of Locris, and an Argonaut. Family Oileus's father was given as Hodoedocus (whom Oileus succeeded as King of Locris) and his mother as Agrianome (daughter ...

''. Like his brother, he died of tuberculosis (pulmonary phtisis). He died at Milan.

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