Niccola Cianfanelli (

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, July 19, 1793 –

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, August 30, 1848) was an Italian painter and restorer. He mainly painted historic and sacred subjects in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

He studied under

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at the

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in Florence. Among his works was the fresco of ''Ercole and Jole'' in the salon of the Palazzo Borghese in Florence. He painted the sipario theater curtain of the Niccolini Theater in Florence with a depiction of a passage from the poetry of Pulci, ''La giostra di

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col Borromeo sulla piazza di Santa Croce''. He painted an oil canvas depicting the ''Adoration of the Magi'' for the church of

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in Florence. He frescoed scenes from ''

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'' for the walls of a room in the royal palace ( Palazzina della Meridiana di Boboli) in Florence. He was commissioned to complete lunettes for the Tribune of Galileo (built in 1841 at present site of La Specola Museum): he completed ''Leonardo presents mathematician Luca Pacioli to Lodovico il Moro'', but left the other lunette as a study with ''Volta experiments his discovery of the battery to Napoleon''. In

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, he painted frescoes of the ''Martyrdom of San Giacomo'' in the apse, and a canvas depicting, ''Massacre of the Innocents'', for the church of San Giacomo. He also painted for Villa Puccini in Pistoia: ''

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presents to Cosimo I and

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the model of Perseus''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cianfanelli, Nicola 1793 births 1848 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Tuscany Italian neoclassical painters Fresco painters Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze alumni 19th-century Italian male artists