Giuseppe Lucatelli (1751-1828) was an

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painter and architect, active in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

Born in

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to a father who was a doctor, he studied in Rome, in circles dominated by

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. He returned to

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where he completed the decoration for the Nicola Vaccai Theater. These canvases are now collected in the Palazzo Comunale of

. They include a large canvas depicting ''Three Graces''. He taught design at the schools of

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, Tolentino and

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. In 1803 the French-dominated government sent him to make copies of the Correggio frescoes in the formerly cloistered Monastery of

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. Giuseppe Lucatelli Architetto (1751-1828): un segno europeo nella Marca dei Teatri
, by Giovanni Falaschi Gaeta, PhD thesis, 2003. He painted an altarpiece depicting a ''Madonna dell'Ulivo'' (1810) for a chapel in the Basilica of San Nicola a Tolentino.

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