Giuseppe Baldini (1807 – 1876) was an Italian painter, specializing in portraits, landscapes, and religious subjects, born in
Livorno
Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...
where he worked most of his life.
Biography
He studied at the
Accademia di San Luca
The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...
in Rome. Among his pupils were a young
Giovanni Fattori and
Giovanni Costa. Among his works are portraits of ''Capitan Lavarello'' and ''S. Pediani'', ''Signora Baluganti''; and his ''Figlio Eugenio''. For the church of
San Giuseppe, Livorno, he painted ''Jesus gives the keys to St Peter''; ''Martyrdom of Sts Crispin and Crispiniano''; and ''Jesus at Prayer in the Orchard''.
Galleria Recta
short biography.
References
1807 births
1876 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Tuscany
19th-century Italian male artists
Giovanni Fattori
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