Luigi Ademollo (IT 1764-1849) St Ambrogio Meets Tirrano Massimo

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Luigi Ademollo (Italian 1764-1849) St. Ambrogio Encounters Tirrano Massimo sepia and ink on paper 20 x 23" presumably a cartoon for a frescoe. Ademollo primarily painted frescoes with biblical scenes from the Old and New Testaments. In 1789 he was appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He painted in theaters, including the decoration of sipari (theater curtains). In Livorno, he executed the neoclassical decorations of the Teatro San Carlo. Ademollo was also interested in creating frescoes for the church of Santa Caterina, but his proposal, considered too expensive, was rejected. He did fresco in the Chapel of the Conception in Livorno Cathedral.In the Pisa area he worked in Pomarance, Palaia, and Santa Maria a Monte. In Arezzo he executed frescoes with scenes from the Old and New Testaments, and in the countryside he worked in Lucignano and Monte San Savino: here in the church of the Compagnia del Suffragio he executed in 1821 the pictorial cycle that decorates it, depicting the Deposition from the Cross with the Holy Trinity and angels and Scenes from the New Testament in the side walls and vaults. Sold to Benefit the Middlebury College Museum of Art He helped fresco the Royal Chapel in the Pitti Palace and also the churches of Santissima Annunziata and Sant'Ambrogio.[3] In Siena, he painted frescoes for the Palazzo Venturi Gallerani and Palazzo Sergardi. He died in Florence in 1849. -Sold to benefit the Middlebury College Museum of Art.