Giuseppe Diotti (1 March 1779 – 30 January 1846) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic style. Ugolino diotti 1820

Biography

He was born in

Casalmaggiore Casalmaggiore ( Casalasco-Viadanese: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, Italy, located across the Po River. It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani. It became worldwide famous thanks to its ...

. His full name was Francesco Giuseppe Antonio Diotti. He initially was apprenticed in his hometown to

Paolo Araldi Paolo Araldi (18th century – after 1820) was an Italian painter of historical and religious subjects. Biography He was born in Casalmaggiore, and there initially studied under the local painter Abbott Francesco Antonio Chiozzi, but later moved t ...

. As a teenager, until 1796, he attended the Academy at

Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmigiano-Reggiano, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,292 ...

and was there instructed by Carlo Calami. After a few years back at Casalmaggiore, he gained stipends to allow him to travel to Rome, where he was strongly influenced by the academic styles of both Gaspare Landi and

Vincenzo Camuccini Vincenzo Camuccini (22 February 1771 – 2 September 1844) was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome. Biography Camuccini was born in Rome, and fir ...

. He painted in fresco as well as in oil, distinguishing himself as a painter of historical subjects. From 1806 to 1809, he painted, among other topics, the ''Rest in Egypt'', a ''Deposition'', a ''Moses with Tablets'', an ''Adoration by Shepherds'', and ''Moses and the Bronze Serpent''. He then returned to Milan, and through his friendship with Andrea Appiani, he became a professor in the

Accademia Carrara The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collect ...

in Bergamo. He received many subsequent honors including membership in the Academies of Milan (Brera) in 1815, the Atheneum at

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

in 1819, the Atheneum at Brescia in 1829, the Accademia of Bologna in 1837, and the Roman

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 1844. He died in 1846 in Casalmaggiore. His former palace and studio is now the

Museo Diotti The Museo Diotti is an art institution and museum displaying 19th and 18th century art, located on Via Formis 17 in the historic center of Casalmaggiore, province of Cremona Lombardy, Italy. History The museum, opened in 2007, is located in the p ...

Legacy

In the Belvedere at

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is a picture by him representing ''The Kiss of Judas'', and in the Brera Gallery is a depiction of the ''Congress of Pontida'' (

Oath of Pontida The oath of Pontida (''Giurament de Pontida'' in Lombard, ''Giuramento di Pontida'' in Italian), according to tradition, would have been a ceremony that would have sanctioned on 7 April 1167, in the abbey of Pontida, near Bergamo, in Italy, the ...

). Other works by him are a ''Leonardo da Vinci and Lodovico Sforza'' and ''Tobias recovering his Sight''. His self-portrait, dated 1821, is in the Uffizi. He also helped decorate, alongside

Luigi Sabatelli Luigi Sabatelli (21 February 1772 – 29 January 1850) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence. Biography He studied in his native city and in Rome. In 1803, with the reorganizatio ...

, the frescoes (1818) at Palazzo Bolzesi in

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

; the ''Bath of Venus'' at Palazzo Locatelli in Bergamo; and four frescoes in the Colleoni chapel in the Cathedral of Cremona.''La Pittura lombarda nel secolo XIX.''
Tipografia Capriolo e Massimino, 1900, page 33. Among his pupils were

Giovanni Carnovali Giovanni Carnovali (29 September 1804 – 5 July 1873), known as Il Piccio ('the little one'), was an Italian painter. Biography Carnovali was born in Montegrino Valtravaglia (Varese). In 1815, at the age of just 11, he was admitted to the ...

and

Enrico Scuri Enrico Scuri (April 26, 1805 – 1884) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style. Biography He was born and died in Bergamo. By 13 years of age, he became a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti, where he overlapped with Francesco Coghetti and Giovan ...

, and he was a mentor and collaborator with

Pietro Ronzoni Pietro Ronzoni (1781 in Sedrina, Bergamo – 1861 in Bergamo) was an Italian painter. Biography Trained in Rome under the guidance of the landscape painter Luigi Campovecchio from Mantua, Ronzoni met Angelica Kauffman and Antonio Canova and forme ...

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