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Giuseppe Marsigli

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Giuseppe Marsigli (Naples, c. 1795 - circa 1835) was an Italian painter and engraver.[1][2]

Biography

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He was a pupil of Costanzo Angelini in design, Giuseppe Cammarano in color. His brother Filippo Marsigli was also a painter. He participated in restorations in Naples.[3] He engraved silverware.[4] Marsgli was a friend of Vincenzo Bellini and a master of his mistress Maddalena Fumaroli.

Marsigli's Symposium of Centaurs (1831) is held in the collection of the Naples Archaeological Museum.[5] He is known for his 19th century reproductions of paintings discovered at Pompeii.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ Pompei: La fortuna vivisa Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Marina Causa Picone (1974). "GIUSEPPE MARSIGLI". Disegni della Società napoletana di storia patria. Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane.
  3. ^ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, page 25.
  4. ^ Silver engravings.
  5. ^ Barry, Fabio (2020). Painting in Stone: Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Yale University Press. p. 100. ISBN 9780300248166.
  6. ^ M. Taylor Lauritsen (2023). "The Crossroads of Mercury: Decoration and Development on the Via di Mercurio at Pompeii". In Adrian Hielscher; Anna-Lena Krüger; Annette Haug (eds.). Neighbourhoods and City Quarters in Antiquity: Design and Experience. De Gruyter. ISBN 9783111248462.
  7. ^ Caroline Cheung (2024). Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine. Princeton University Press. pp. 77–78. ISBN 9780691242996.