Andrea Appiani
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Italy
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neoclassical
Neoclassicism
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painter
Painting
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Biography
He was born in Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici (1723–1804). He received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints. He then joined the class of the fresco painter Antonio de' Giorgi, which was held at the Ambrosiana picture gallery in Milan. He also frequented the studio of Martin Knoller, where he deepened his knowledge of painting in oils; and he studied anatomy at the Ospedale MaggioreOspedale Maggiore
The Ospedale Maggiore, traditionally named Ca' Granda , is a building in the center of Milan, northern Italy, constructed to house one of the first community hospitals, the largest such undertaking of the fifteenth century...
in Milan with the sculptor Gaetano Monti
Gaetano Monti
Gaetano Monti was an Italian sculptor, active in Milan. Little is known about his career; he was, for a time, active as a teacher of anatomy at the Ospedale Maggiore, where he numbered among his pupils Andrea Appiani and Gaetano Matteo Monti...
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His interest in aesthetic issues was stimulated by the classical poet Giuseppe Parini
Giuseppe Parini
Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy...
, whom he drew in two fine pencil portraits. In 1776 he entered the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera to follow the painting courses of Giuliano Traballesi, from whom he received a mastery of the fresco technique. His best pieces are in the church of San Maria presso San Celso and the royal palace at Milan and almost rival those of his master.
He was made pensioned artist to the Kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonic)
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by Napoleon
Napoleon I of France
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, but lost his allowance after the events of 1814 and fell into poverty. During his stint as court painter
Court painter
A court painter was an artist who painted for the members of a royal or noble family, sometimes on a fixed salary and on an exclusive basis where the artist was not supposed to undertake other work. Especially in the late Middle Ages, they were often given the office of valet de chambre...
he rendered portraits of Napoleon and the chief personages of his regime. Among the most graceful of his oil paintings are his Venus and Love, and Rinaldo in the garden of Armida. He is known as "the elder", to distinguish him from his great-nephew Andrea Appiani, an historical painter at Rome
Rome
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. Other painters of the same name were Niccolò Appiani
Niccolò Appiani
Niccolò Appiani , a Milanese painter, who flourished about the year 1510. It is said that he was a scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, and Cesariani compares him with the greatest masters of the age. Two works in the Brera, the 'Baptism of Christ,' and the 'Adoration of the Magi,' are ascribed to...
and Francesco Appiani
Francesco Appiani
Francesco Appiani was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia. He was a pupil of Domenico Simonetti. Among his works, are a Death of San Domenico painted for San Sisto Vecchio, and for works in both Perugia and Assisi. He also painted lunettes for a church...
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He died at Milan in 1817.