Michele Fanoli (1807 – 19 September 1876) was an
Italian painter and
engraver, mainly of religious subjects and portraits in a
Neoclassical style.
Biography
He was born in
Cittadella, province of Padua. He studied under
Leopoldo Cicognara
Count Leopoldo Cicognara (17 November 1767, in Ferrara – 5 March 1834, in Venice) was an Italian artist, art collector, art historian and bibliophile.
Early life, education, and political career
Cicognara attended the Collegio dei Nobili in M ...
at the Academy of Fine Arts at
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
, and at the
Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice
The is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
History
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756. The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepolo ...
at the urging of Cicognara. He traveled to Paris where he learned the art of
lithography
Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...
.
In Paris he made lithographic reproductions of major works including ''Deposition'' (1848), ''Les Willis'' (1848), ''Marriage at Cana'' (1849), ''Orpheus'' (1854), ''Last Supper'' (1855), and ''Immaculate Conception'' (1855), printed by Lemercier in Paris. When he returned to Italy in 1860, he was made director of the School of Lithography at the
Brera Academy.
Fanoli made a widely circulated painting from a scene in the opera ''
I Promessi Sposi
''The Betrothed'' ( it, I promessi sposi ) is an Italian Historical romance, historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827 in literature, 1827, in three Volume (bibliography), volumes, and significantly revised and rewritten un ...
''. He also engraved a fanciful inventory of the sculptural works of
Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822) was an Italian Neoclassical sculptor, famous for his marble sculptures. Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists,. his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the cl ...
(1840). He was a lifelong friend of
Luigi Carrer.
Delle vita e delle opere di Luigi Carrer: studio
by Giovanni Battista Crovato, page V. He painted two works in Cittadella: ''La riconoscenza'' displayed in City Hall, and an altarpiece (''Blessed Veronica Giuliani receives Stigmata surrounded by Saints'') for the principal church of the town.
References
1807 births
1876 deaths
Artists from Padua
19th-century Italian painters
19th-century Italian male artists
Italian male painters
Italian engravers
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia alumni
Academic staff of Brera Academy
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