Luigi Cochetti (2 October 1802 – 6 January 1884) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Rome, where he was a pupil of

Tommaso Minardi Tommaso Minardi (December 4, 1787 – January 12, 1871) was an Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. Biography Mi ...

at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He became a professor of painting at the academy. The Accademia was then under the direction of

Vincenzo Cammuccini 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 large allegories for the ceiling and theater curtain of the Teatro dell'Aquila in Fermo, depicting respectively the ''Invocation at Olympus with Jove, Juno, three graces and six dancing nocturnal hours listening to the music of Apollo'' and ''Harmony consigns its scepter to the Genius of Fermo''.Comune of Fermo
entry on Teatro dell'Aquila.

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