Ponziano Loverini (July 6, 1845 – August 21, 1929) was an Italian painter, known primarily for his canvases and frescoes of sacred subjects.

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Born in

Gandino Gandino (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about northeast of Milan and about northeast of Bergamo. Gandino borders the following municipalities: Casnigo, Cazza ...

to a humble but pious tailor, Ponziano was helped by his uncle to enroll (1858) at the

Accademia Carrara The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collect ...

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. A stipend from the city of Gandino sponsored his art study. There, he was a pupil of the painter

Enrico Scuri Enrico Scuri (April 26, 1805 – 1884) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style. Biography He was born and died in Bergamo. By 13 years of age, he became a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti, where he overlapped with Francesco Coghetti and Giovan ...

. In 1881, he exhibited at Milan: ''St Bishop

Philastrius Philastrius (also Philaster or Filaster) Bishop of Brescia, was one of the bishops present at a synod held in Aquileia in 381. Augustine of Hippo met him at Milan about 383, or perhaps a little later (St. Augustine, ''Ep.'' ccxxii). He composed a c ...

''; in 1884 at Turin he exhibited the large canvas depicting ''St Francis entering a monastic order''. He exhibited at Milan a canvas depicting young nudes before a white background. In 1887 at Venice, he exhibited ''Coeci vident''. Among other works: ''Studi dal vero''; ''Il prediletto della nonna'' were exhibited at Milan in 1886. In 1887, he painted a large canvas of ''San Grata'' in honor of the priestly jubilee of Pope

Leo XIII Pope Leo XIII ( it, Leone XIII; born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci; 2 March 1810 – 20 July 1903) was the head of the Catholic Church from 20 February 1878 to his death in July 1903. Living until the age of 93, he was the second-old ...

, which was sent to the

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. He married in 1880, and had four children, but the deaths of two of them in infancy plunged him into a depression, which worsened when his wife died in 1895. Loverini also painted some portraits, watercolors. and studies of various genres. Among his fresco work, he painted the four biblical figures: ''Job'', ''Ezekiel'', ''Jeremiah'', and ''Tobit'', (1913) for the Chapel of Monuments in the Cimitero Unico of Bergamo. In 1887 he began a cycle of frescoes depicting the Story of St Peter for the parish church of

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. He also frescoed in the Basilica of

San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro (Italian for "Saint Peter in Golden Sky") is a Catholic basilica (and a former cathedral) of the Augustinians in Pavia, Italy, in the Lombardy region. Its name refers to the mosaics of gold leaf behind glass tesserae that ...

. From 1888 and in 1893, he completed five large canvases for the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Rosario of Pompei. In 1893, he became an associate of the Atheneum of Bergamo. In 1895, he was one of the founders of the Bergamese Artists’ circle, and named a member of the "Commission to Conserve Monuments" for the

Province of Bergamo The Province of Bergamo ( it, provincia di Bergamo; lmo, proìnsa de Bèrghem) is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. It has a population of 1,112,187 (2017), an area of , and contains 243 ''comuni''. Its capital is the city of Bergamo. ...

. Finally in 1899, he was designated director of the School of Painting of the Accademia Carrara, replacing

Cesare Tallone Cesare Tallone (1853–1919) was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Savona and after losing his father at the age of ten, Cesare Tallone moved with his mother and sisters to Alessandria, where he became a pupil of the decorative artist Piet ...

, a post he held till 1926, when he resigned due to ill health. He painted the ''Il Cantico di frate Sole'' for the Vatican, and in 1904, Pope

Pius X Pope Pius X ( it, Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914. Pius X is known for vigorously opposing modernist interpretations of C ...

sent it to the London Exposition. Biography
He died in 1929 in Gandino.

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A few more works by Loverini
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