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Paolo Gonzaga
Read more...Italian theatrical designer. Born to Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga and Carlotta Vanini in St Petersburg (1794). Studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1806–16) and worked under his father at the Imper...
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Luigi Premazzi
Read more...Italian painter, draughtsman, teacher. Born in Milan (1814). Studied under Giovanni Migliara at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where he won a prize for perspective painting (1834). Pa...
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Cosroe Dusi
Read more...Italian painter. Born in Venice (1808). Studied under Teodoro Mattini at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Married Antonietta, daughter of Bartolomeo Ferrari (1831). Decorated churches in Venice...
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Michele Scotti
Read more...Painter, draughtsman, teacher. Son of Giovanni Battista Scotti, an Italian decorative artist invited to Russia by Giacomo Quarenghi (1780s). Born in St Petersburg and christened at the Roman Catholic...
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