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Domenico Morelli

Domenico Morelli (1826 - 1901) was active/lived in Italy.  Domenico Morelli is known for History and religious painting.

Domenico Morelli (4 August 1826, Naples, Italy - 13 August 1901, Naples) was an Italian painter, who mainly produced historical and religious works.

He was born to a poor family. His talent was noted, and he was enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Naples in 1836-1846, where he befriended Francesco Saverio Altamura. His early works contain imagery drawn from the Medieval* stories and Romantic* poets such as Byron. In 1848 he won a fellowship to study in Rome. But he had just returned to Naples, when the insurrections of 1848 erupted in Naples. He joined the protesters in the barricades on via Toledo, and was wounded and briefly imprisoned. In a retrospective published after his death, Isabella Anderton would label Domenico as one of the warrior artists of Italy, a group which also included Filippo Palizzi, Telemaco Signorini, Stefano Ussi, and Francesco Saverio Altamura.

Released, Morelli returned to Rome and visited Florence in the 1850s where he received h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2899 characters.]  Artist bio

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