Umberto Marigliani (1885–1960) was an Italian painter, active in Northern Italy, painting sacred subjects.

Biography

He trained under Cesare Tallone and Ponziano Loverini 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 ...

, then at the Scuola d’arte ''Andrea Fantoni''. He then worked under Fermo Taragni. In 1907, he helped fresco the ceiling of the church of Sant’Antonio Abbandonato, near

Val Brembilla Val Brembilla (Bergamasque: ) is a ''comune'' in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardy. It was established by the regional council on 4 February 2014 from the fusion of the comuni di Brembilla and Gerosa Gerosa was a ''comune'' (municipality) in ...

. Nicknamed ''Tiepolino'' for his rapid fresco execution, he was active in Liguria and Switzerland. He helped found in 1913 the Società degli acquafortisti bergamaschi, and in 1938 made designs for the windows of the Sanctuary of Pompei.bergamo encyclopedia
La Banca della Memoria dei Bergamaschi, 2011, BGpedia Associazione Culturale. He also painted for the church of

San Vittore, Calcio San Vittore is a neoclassical-style Roman Catholic parish church in the town of Calcio, province of Bergamo, region of Lombardy, Italy. History Construction of the church began in 1770, but was interrupted in 1792, and not restarted until 1833. T ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marigliani Umberto 20th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bergamo 1885 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Italian male artists