Domenico Menozzi

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Bust of Menozzi at the Brera Academy.

Domenico Menozzi (1777 – 1841)[1] was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical period.

Biography[edit]

He was born in Reggio Emilia, but soon moved to Bergamo and then Milan in 1801, where he was active for more than three decades as a landscape and decorative painter, but best remembered as a scenic designer.[2] In Reggio, he is said to have painted for the house of Vincenzo Linari and the Lawyer Bongiovanni.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Menozzi Domenico - Istituto Matteucci entry.
  2. ^ Il Pirata, giornale artistico, letterario, teatrale], Milan (1842); Anno VII, Number 55, page 219.
  3. ^ Memorie storiche dei Reggiani più illustri nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e nelle Arti, by Enrico Manzini; Tipografia Degani e Gasparini, Reggio Emilia (1878); page 262.