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Portrait of the Palumbo-Fossati Family

Palumbo-Fossati Collection, Venice

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This fascinating portrait of the Palumbo-Fossati still quotes from Canova, as the painter shows the young girl at the centre with her arms uplifted. This said, the spirit underlying the painting is completely new. Romantic sensibility is already alive in this rare example of a conversational scene with a Venetian ambiance.

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Portrait of the Palumbo-Fossati Family

About the Artist

Michelangelo Grigoletti

1801 – 1870

Italian painter, pupil of Matteini in Venice. He painted historical and religious paintings in the academic style (I due Foscari, 1838, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, altarpieces for the Cathedral of Esztergom and Cathedral of Erlau, for churches in Friuli, Cadore, Trento, etc.). Some of his portraits are counted among the good examples of nineteenth-century Italian painting. He was the master of Giacomo Favretto.

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