Francesco Morelli
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Francesco Morelli (ca. 1767 – ca. 1830) was a French-Italian painter and engraver. He was active in Naples and known as a painter or engraver of Pompeian subjects.[1][2]
He was born in the Franche-Comté, and then traveled to Rome.[3] He completed a series of engravings depicting the so-called Villa of Horace in Licenza with Hackert and Luigi Sabatelli.[4]
Another Francesco Morelli from Florence was the first and dear mentor of Giovanni Baglione.
References
[edit]- ^ Nova bibliotheca pompeiana: L–Z, by Laurentino García y García (1998), p. 837.
- ^ Ricerche su l'origine, su i progressi, e sul decadimento delle arti, 1821, by Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, p. 30.
- ^ Bollettino d'arte, Issues 127–130, article by Adele Fiadino, (2008) p. 121.
- ^ Raccolta di no. 10 vedute rappresentanti la villa d'Orazio.
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