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Nicolò Barabino (1831–1891) was an Italian
''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 31. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barabino, Nicolo 1831 births 1891 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti alumni People from Sampierdarena 19th-century Italian male artists
Nicolò Barabino (1831–1891) was an Italian academic painter
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of religious and historical subjects, active in Florence
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and Genoa
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Biography
He was born inSampierdarena
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. His initial studies were at the Genovese Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti
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, under Giuseppe Isola
Giuseppe (Tommaso Giuseppe) Isola (Genoa, April 7, 1808 – Genoa, July 21, 1893) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was the son of Gaetano Isola and Maria Annunziata Rolleri, during his youth he displayed his works in his father's furniture ...
. In Genoa
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, he befriended Maurizio Dufour. In 1857, he won the Durazzo scholarship to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti
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Accademie di Belle Arti
The offic ...
in Florence. He designed some of the lunettes completed as mosaics for the portals of the Florence Cathedral
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. He also worked in frescoes for the City Hall of Genoa.
His first work in Florence was an altarpiece depicting the ''Madonna Consolatrice degli afflitti''. He also frescoed the church of Riviera Ligure, and the parish church di San Giacomo di Corte in Santa Margherita Ligure. In 1856 he exhibited in Florence a canvas depicting the ''Death of Boniface VIII''.
The marchesa Luisa Durazzo of Genoa
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commissioned a triptych
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for her chapel, in the church of the Concezione in Genoa. He frescoed a hall in the palazzina Celesia with the following three pictures: ''Galileo before the Inquisition'' ;''Piero Capponi
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Biography
First intended for a business career, Piero's diplomatic ab ...
tears up the terms offered by Carlo VIII of France'', and ''The Sicilian Vespers
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''. He also provided frescoes for the Hospital of the Duchess of Galliera, and in a hall of the palazzo of signor Pignone in Genoa.
The lawyer Tito Orsini commissioned large historical canvases for his palazzo Orsini, representing: ''Galileo in Arcetri'', ''Galileo ill surrounded by pupils''; ''Columbus before Council of Salamanca'', and ''Archimedes and Alessandro Volta''. The painting of Galileo won a fourth prize at the Esposizione Nazionale of Turin in 1880.
In 1884, he aided the government during a cholera epidemic. He was knighted as a Cavaliere dell'Ordine del Merito Civile di Savoia. One of his pupils was Francesco De Lorenzi
Francesco De Lorenzi (1827 – June 16, 1900) was an Italian painter, mainly of ornamental fresco decoration.
Biography
He was born in Varese. After studying at the Brera Academy of Milan, he settled in Genoa. There he worked under Nicolo Barabi ...
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References
* *''Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.''
by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 31. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barabino, Nicolo 1831 births 1891 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti alumni People from Sampierdarena 19th-century Italian male artists