Giuseppe Abbati - Artist Info

About Giuseppe Abbati

  • Biography

    Son of Vincenzo Abbati, Neapolitan painter of interiors, Guiseppe Abbati moved with his family first to Florence in 1842, then to Venice where he lived from 1846 to 1858. His father was his first teacher, then in 1850 he enrolled in the Accademia di Belle Arti where he studied under the guidance of Grigoletti and Bagnara. In Venice he met and frequently saw Stefano Ussi, Domenico Morelli, Vito D'Ancona and Telemaco Signorini, who had come in the city for a period of study. In 1858, Abbati was again in Naples, where during the following year he exhibited the painting La Cappella di San Tommaso d'Aquino in San Domenico Maggiore (The San Tommaso d'Aquino Chapel in San Domenico Maggiore) at the exp...

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