Rimini
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, 1728 – Rimini, February 21, 1801) was an Italian painter and an
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friar. His name prior to entering the Augustinan order was ''Remigio Enrico Policarpo''.
Levoli was a pupil of
Ubaldo Gandolfi
Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna.
Biography
He was born in San Matteo della Decima and enrolled by the age of 17 at the Clementine Academy, where he apprenticed w ...
, director of the
Accademia Clementina
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...
in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
since 1761. Levoli is noted for painting still-life works and depictions of flowers. The Pinacoteca of Rimini has one of his works.Biography of Augustinian painters He entered mendicant life on January 29, 1747, in Bologna, in the convent of
San Giacomo Maggiore
The Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore is an historic Roman Catholic church in Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy, serving a monastery of Augustinian friars. It was built starting in 1267 and houses, among the rest, the Bentivoglio Chapel, f ...
. However, he always leaned to painting, and by 1762 was a member of the Accademia Clementina di Bologna. He won a contest in 1765 for painting flowers and collaborated with Gandolfi on some canvases, painting the flowers and objects. Levoli also painted some altarpieces and sacred works, now lost. By 1769, he had been associated with the convent of San Agostino in Rimini, where he lived till the suppression in 1797 after the French occupation. He was sent to the Convent of Minori Osservanti till his death in 1801.
Zauli Naldi (1961) attributed three still lifes in the Ongaro collection of Milan to Levoli, but the attribution was changed to a follower of Levoli's style, the nobleman from Rimini, Ludovico Soardi, (born 1764). In 1964, further still lifes were discovered, one of these is in the Pinacoteca civica of Faenza. Since then, over half a dozen attributions have been made. Some of them had been previously assigned to Arcangelo Resani. Later paintings resemble the style of