Filippo Bigioli

Filippo Bigioli (San Severino Marche, June 4, 1798 - 1878) was an Italian painter, active in a late neoclassical style^[1]

Biography

In 1861, he painted a series of over two dozen large canvases for a Galleria Dantesca about Dante and his works, most of which were exhibited initially in the Palazzo Altieri in Rome, but later when on tour, including to London.^[2] He was helped in the planning by Romualdo Gentilucci, and coloring by Vincenzo Paliotti, Guerra, and professor Alfonso Chierici.^[3] He helped fresco the palace (destroyed) and villa of Count Torlonia in Rome. A collection of his works is on display in the Palazzo Comunale of San Severino.^[4]

References

1. Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968).
2. Building News and Architectural Review, Volume 8, page 67.
3. Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael, by Richard Thayer Holbrook, Houghton Mifflin, (1911); page 226.
4. Comune of Sanseverino Marche, tourism, illustrious persons of Sanseverino.