Vincenzo Riolo (February 14, 1772 in

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– July 5, 1837) was an

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painter of the Neoclassical style, active mainly in his native Sicily.

Biography

He trained in Palermo initially with Antonio Manno and

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, but at the age of twenty moved to Rome to work under Giovanni Battista Wicar. Among his contemporaries in Palermo was

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. He married Anna, the daughter of the painter

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in Palermo. In 1828, he replaced his father in law as professor at the ''Regia Accademia del Nudo'' in Palermo. Riolo died during the

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epidemic of 1837, and was replaced as professor by another pupil of Velasco, Salvatore Lo Forte. He painted a portrait of his friend,

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. Among other works, he painted frescoes in the Palazzo Tasca and Gangi, in the Real Casino (Villa) della Favorita, the church of Sant'Ignazio all'Olivella, and the Royal Palace (Reggia) of Ficuzza. He died in 1837 during a cholera epidemic in PalermoA. Linares, page 205-216.

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