Giuseppe Sogni (May 18, 1795 – August 11, 1874) was an Italian painter. He was born in Robbiano near

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. He began studying sculpture under

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, but chose painting as a career. From 1832 to 1836, he was a pupil of Luigi Sabatelli at the

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. He painted large historical canvases and portraits. He first became professor of painting in Bologna, then became professor of figures (physiognomy) at the academy in

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. He helped engrave plates on anatomy by Giacomo Bossi. He painted the ceiling of the Hall of the Society of Gardens in Milan, frescoed in Santa Chiara in

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, and in San Pietro in

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.''La Pittura lombarda nel secolo XIX.''
Tipografia Capriolo e Massimino, 1900, page 37-38. He retired from the academy in 1861, and died in Milan.

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History and bibliography of anatomic illustration in its relation to
...By Ludwig Choulant, Edward Clark Streeter, page 337. 1795 births 1874 deaths Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub