Francesco Saverio Moretti (1800 – 5 May 1866) was an

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painter active in the

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region. He was born in

Recanati Recanati () is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Macerata, in the Marche region of Italy. Recanati was founded around 1150 AD from three pre-existing castles. In 1290 it proclaimed itself an independent republic and, in the 15th century, ...

, in the province of Macerata. He trained initially locally under Serafino Maritozzi, then in 1825, the priest Roberto Carradori of the

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patronized his enrollment at the Academy of St Luke in

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, then under

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. However, his main training was in the studio of

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located in Palazzo Colonna. Among possible contemporaries of Moretti in that studio were other painters of the Marche, such as Domenico Bernardi of Corinaldo, Ercole Morelli of Ancona, Francesco Cardi of Ascoli, Emidio Paci di Ascoli, Alessandro Nardoni of Ascoli Luigi Castelli of Loreto, Alessandro Finardi of Ancona, and Domenico Ventura of Macerata. Minardi at the time was following a neo-raphaelesque esthetic style along the lines of

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. After 12 years in Rome, in 1938 he received a commission to decorate rooms in the Palazzo Carradori of Recanati, to celebrate the marriage of Count Antonio with Laura, the daughter of Prince Simonetti. he soon had a commission to decorate the Villa Koch, the former Palazzo dei Filippini, Palazzo Venieri, and the Palazzo Antici. In 1856 and 1858, there was attempts to include him among the artists restoring the Raphael Rooms in Vatican, but he remained in Recanati. He developed an eye malady during his later years.Liceo de Recanati
website of the Palazzo Venieri in Recanati, by Stefano Papetti.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moretti Francesco Saverio 1800 births 1866 deaths People from Recanati 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian male artists