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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

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

  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.