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Annibale Gatti (September, 1828 – 1909) was an Italian painter, known for history painting and fresco decoration in Tuscany.

Biography

He was born in Forlì. He moved to Florence by 1830. In 1843, he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence. He became friends with the architect Giuseppe Poggi, and was employed in numerous restoration projects in Tuscany. He frescoed for the Palazzo Lanfranchi-Toscanelli in Pisa. In 1861, he decorated the Throne Room in the Pitti Palace. He decorated the ceiling of the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, where he also painted the sipario (or theater curtain).[1] He became professor in the Florentine Academy and appointed Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy.

Among his other works are the following:[2]

• Rinaldo and Armida and Armida coi duci arabi, (ceiling of Palazzo Favard, Florence)
• Molière reads his comedies to the serva
• Transport of the Cadaver of Verdiana da Castelfiorentino, (1872) Gold medal in Florence)
• Lafayette and Washington (awarded in Boston)
• Leonardo da Vinci at the court of Lodovico il Moro
• Goldoni his comedies in Gardens of the Palazzo Scotto in Pisa
• Galileo receives Milton (Wellcome Library)[3]
• Paesiello
• The Master of All Our Seeing
• Frieze (Ballroom of Villino Stibbert, Florence).

References

External links

Media related to Annibale Gatti at Wikimedia Commons

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[fr] Annibale Gatti

Annibale Gatti, né à Forli en septembre 1828 et mort le 13 août 1909 à Florence, est un peintre italien, est connu pour sa peinture d'histoire et la décoration à fresque en Toscane.

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[it] Annibale Gatti

Annibale Gatti (Forlì, 1827 – Firenze, 1909) è stato un pittore italiano.

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