Name Paolo Girgenti | ||
Paolo Girgenti (c. 1767 – 1815) was an Italian painter of the late 18th and early 19th-centuries, active in Naples.
Biography
He was born in Agrigento, Sicily, known in Sicilian language as Girgenti. He studied, along with a Giuseppe Camerata from Sciacca, under Fedele Fischetti. He became the president of the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts at the beginning of the 19th century. He made a copy of Raphael's Repose in Egypt He painted a Sleeping Cupid, of which a copy is found in the Museo Pepoli in Trapani.
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