Pompeo Mariani - Artist Info

About Pompeo Mariani

  • Biography

    1857
    The 9th of September Pompeo was born in Monza in a house in "Borgo Como" near S. Biagio Church from Martino Mariani and Giulia Bianchi. His father Martino ( 1826-1886) ran - together with Gaetano Pellegrino - the Commercial School Mariani-Pellegrini of Monza. In that school important generations of Lombard industrialists received the first fundamental teachings.

    His mother Giulia (1838-1914) was the first daughter of the painter Giosué (1803-1875) and sister of the most famous artist of the Bianchi family, Mosè (1840-1904). Mariani's house was often visited by Alessandro Manzoni who gave Martino Mariani one of the first copies of "I promessi Sposi".

    1858-1877
    Pompeo spends his childhood in the natal town with his el...

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