Giuseppe Marsigli

This article is about the painter. For the tenor, see Giuseppe Marsigli (tenor).

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

Biography

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

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.