Francesco Appiani (January 29, 1704 – 1792) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active mainly in

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and

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

Biography

Appiani was born in

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. He was a pupil of Domenico Simonetti, and then later moved to Rome to study under

Francesco Trevisani 200px, ''Portrait of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni ''by Francesco Trevisani. The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham">Barnard_Castle.html" ;"title="Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle">Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, England. Frances ...

, Francesco Mancini, and

Giovanni Paolo Pannini Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the '' vedutisti'' ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of ...

.Encyclopedia Treccani
entry by Francesco Santi, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 3 (1961) He mainly worked in Perugia. Among his works, are a ''Death of San Domenico'' painted for the church of San Sisto Vecchio. He is known for his altarpiece in the

Perugia Cathedral Perugia Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana di San Lorenzo; Duomo di Perugia) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Perugia, Umbria, central Italy, dedicated to Saint Lawrence. Formerly the seat of the bishops and archbishops of Perugia, it has b ...

. He also painted lunettes for a church of a Benedictine convent dedicated to fallen women. In the chapel was an altarpiece by his contemporary

Sebastiano Conca Sebastiano Conca (8 January 1680 – 1 September 1764) was an Italian painter. Biography He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who ...

. The vault was frescoed by

Cesare Sermei Cesare Sermei (Città della Pieve, c.1581 – Assisi, 1668) was an Italian painter. Son of painter Fernando Sermei, he learned to paint in the workshop of Cesare Nebbia, primarily moving between Orvieto and Rome. In 1608 Sermei established hi ...

and the high altar had a painting by Matteo Salvucci. The church is today a political meeting hall. He died in

, aged about 88.

References

* 1704 births 1792 deaths People from Perugia Umbrian painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-artist-stub