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Giuseppe Boschetto (1841–1918) was an Italian painter, active mainly in 
He trained initially with Gustavo Mancinelli; and later with Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 69.
Naples
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, painting often ancient Roman
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subjects, a thematic often characterized as ''Pompei
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History
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an'' or perhaps, more aptly ''Neo-Pompeian''.
He trained initially with Gustavo Mancinelli; and later with Domenico Morelli
Domenico Morelli (4 August 182313 August 1901) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works. Morelli was immensely influential in the arts of the second half of the 19th century, both as director of the Accademia di ...
, for whom he was a major pupil. His first four or five decades were successful but he engaged his inheritance in some industrial enterprise that led him into poverty. Attempting to become an instructor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, he was rebuffed, and he died indigent in 1918.
He exhibited at the 1880 Turin exhibition, a painting depicting ''Santa Lucia in Naples''. At the 1883 Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti of Rome, he exhibited ''The Death of Socrates''. Like Camillo Miola
Camillo Miola (14 September 1840 – 4 May 1919), also known as Biacca, was an Italian painter, often painting exotic Neo-Pompeian and Orientalism, Orientalist subjects. He also painted history and portraits.
Biography
He was born in Naples, an ...
, he applied Realism
Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:
In the arts
*Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts
Arts movements related to realism include:
*Classical Realism
*Literary realism, a move ...
to historical painting. Other paintings were ''The proscriptions of Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.
Sulla had ...
'' and '' Agrippina spies on the Senate'' (exhibited 1877 in Naples).by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 69.
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1841 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters 20th-century Italian painters 20th-century Italian male artists Painters from Naples Neo-Pompeian painters {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub