Giuseppe Craffonara (September 7, 1790 – August 12, 1837) was an Italian painter originally from Val Badia.

Biography

He was instructed by the painter Pietro Cannella from a young age. After having studied at the Verona Academy of Painting, in 1816 he arrived at the

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, where he remained until 1830. During the Roman period he was active in the contemporary laboratory at the Chiaramonti Gallery in the

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. Between 1824 and 1830 he made numerous trips from Rome, linked to subsequent commissions received in

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. The first Trentino commission is the San Vigilio in Gloria for the parish of Stenico, built in 1825. There are also many private commissions mainly linked to the image of the Madonna. Towards the end of 1830 Craffonara definitively returned to his homeland and completed the altarpiece of the Assumption for the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta in Riva del Garda and the controversial frescoes of the Via Crucis for the cemetery in

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. In 1835 he renounced the post of director of the Academy of Fine Arts in

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due to health problems. He died two years later, on 12 August, in his house in Riva del Garda. Among his works is also worth mentioning a canvas preserved in the church of San Tommaso Apostolo in Padaro di

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Craffonara, Giuseppe 1790 births 1837 deaths Painters from the Austrian Empire