Gasparo Martellini Gasparo Martellini (

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 ...

, February 15, 1785 -October 20, 1857) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He was a pupil of

Pietro Benvenuti Pietro Benvenuti (8 January 1769 – 3 February 1844) was an Italian neoclassical painter. Biography Born in Arezzo in Tuscany, he was influenced by the style of Jacques-Louis David. He was a student of the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, then ...

at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Florence The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy. It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. M ...

. He developed an affinity to the atavistic

Purismo ''Purismo'' was an Italian cultural movement which began in the 1820s. The group intended to restore and preserve language through the study of medieval authors, and such study extended to the visual arts. Inspired by the Nazarenes from Germany, ...

style of

Lorenzo Bartolini Lorenzo Bartolini (Prato, 7 January 1777 Florence, 20 January 1850) was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine ...

. He helped paint frescoes in the ''Hall of Ulysses'' in the

Pitti Palace The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...

. The frescoes represent Ulysses returning to Ithaca. He painted in 1841 the lunette depicting ''Session of Experiments at the Accademia del Cimento'' for the

Tribune of Galileo file:Tribuna di galileo 03.JPG, alt=A room with a domed roof supported by round arches. The room beyond the facing arch has frescoes on the wall and a white marble statue of Galileo, also facing the viewer., Tribune of Galileo interior: view across ...

. For the Spinelli Chapel of the Church of Santa Croce, he painted lunettes and walls with ''Coronation of the Virgin'' and ''Church Militant and the prayer by Florence after the plague of 1633''. He also painted lunette with ''Sinite parvulos'' (Let the children come to me) for the portico of the

Ospedale degli Innocenti The Ospedale degli Innocenti (;) 'Hospital of the Innocents', also known in old Tuscan dialect as the ''Spedale degli Innocenti'', is a historic building in Florence, Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, who received the commission in ...

, commissioned in 1843 by the architect Federico Pasqui. ''Sinite Parvulos, Gesù che benedice i fanciulli''
Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence, Restoration.

References

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