Annibale Gatti

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

Biography edit

Dante in esilio (Dante in exile) by Annibale Gatti (current location: Galleria d'Arte Moderna (Florence) [it]

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).

^ Museo Galileo, short biography.
^ Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti, by Angelo De Gubernatis, with notes by Ugo Matini; Le Monnier publishers, Florence (1889); page 217.
^ 1 artwork by or after Annibale Gatti, Art UK

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