Giuseppe Diotti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter. He was born in Casalmaggiore

Casalmaggiore

Casalmaggiore is a comune in the province of Cremona, Lombardy, northern Italy, located across the Po River. It was the birthplace of Italian composers Ignazio Donati and Andrea Zani ....

, and was instructed in the Academy at Parma, and later by Vincenzo Camuccini

Vincenzo Camuccini

Vincenzo Camuccini was an Italian painter of Neoclassic histories and religious paintings. He was considered the premier academic painter of his time in Rome.-Biography:...

 at Rome. He painted in fresco as well as in oil, distinguishing himself as a painter of historical subjects, and became a professor in the Accademia Carrara

Accademia Carrara

The Accademia Carrara is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, Italy.-History:The origins of the art gallery lie with the Count Giacomo Carrara, a wealthy collector and patron of the arts, who left a generous legacy to the city of Bergamo at the end of the 18th century.After the...

, and also in that at Bergamo

Bergamo

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, where he died. In the Belvedere at Vienna

Vienna

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 is a picture by him representing The Kiss of Judas, and in the Milan Gallery is the Congress of Pontida. Other works by him are Leonardo da Vinci and Lodovico Sforza and Tobias receiving his Sight. His self-portrait, dated 1821, is in the Uffizi

Uffizi

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