Prospero Minghetti
Prospero Minghetti (January 2, 1786 – February 17, 1853) was an Italian painter.
Biography[]
He was born in Reggio Emilia. He first trained locally with Camuncoli, then Giovanni Battista Frulli and the engraver Francesco Rosaspina in Bologna, then moved to Rome to the circle of Canova and Minardi. In Reggio, he painted a St John the Baptist for Cathedral of Reggio; a Santa Filomena for church of San Giorgio; a San Bartolomeo and other Saints for church of San Francesco; and a San Gaetano and a San Rocco for church of San Rocco. He also painted portraits for Professor Bonaventura Corti, Giuseppe Garofali, Doctor Giovanni Battista Spallanzani, Francesco IV, and Napoleon I. Rocco engraved his designs for a History of Scandiano. His portrait of Conte Governatore Ippolito Malaguzzi Valeri was reproduced in an engraving by . His ceiling paintings in the old Reggio theater, now destroyed, were among his masterworks.
Among his pupils were: Francesco Zuccotti (), a painter of the Franciscan Order. When Camuncoli died in 1831, Minghetti served, until his death, as director of the School of Fine Arts in Reggio Emilia. Among the students at the School while he was director were Alfonso and Gaetano Chierici; ; Antonio Fontanesi, (Pellizzi); ; Carlo Raimondi; Aleotti; ; (engraver); and Del Rio (sculptor).[1]
References[]
- ^ Memorie storiche dei Reggiani più illustri nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e nelle arti., by Enrico Manzini, (1878), pp. 342–345.
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