''Immaculate Conception with Saints'' (ca 1760) Giuseppe Angeli (

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1709- Venice, 1798) was an Italian painter of the late-

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, known for depicting both genre and religious subjects.

Biography

He trained in the studio of

Giambattista Piazzetta Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes. Biography Piazzetta was ...

. By 1741, he was enrolled in the guild of painters. In 1756, he began as an instructor at the

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; in 1772, he became president of the Academy. He is known for two canvases in the church of

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and for fresco murals at the Villa Widmann-Foscari at Mira, near

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. His other works include an ''Immaculate Conception with Saints'' (ca. 1760) moved to sacristy of San Francesco della Vigna; two scenes of the Via Crucis for the church of Santa Maria Zobenigo; the altarpiece of ''St Pietro I Orseolo receives the monk's habit from St Romuald'' in the church of Santa Maria della Pietà; an ''Immaculate Conception with Saints'' in the basilica of

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; an ''Ecstasy of St Francis'' in the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Pilastrello at Lendinara; an ''Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock'' at the church of Santa Maria Maddalena; the frescoes in the salone of Villa Giovanelli Colonna at

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, a ceiling in the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, and in the Palazzo Barbaro-Curtis in Venice; and a painting of a ''Soldato con tamburo'' in the Louvre. The

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owns a portrait of Federico Maria Giovannelli, Patriarch of Venice. The

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in Washington has an oil painting made for

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, Venice, of ''Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire'' among its

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Collection pictures.

References

* 1709 births 1798 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Venice Italian Baroque painters Academic staff of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia 18th-century Venetian people 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub