Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (May 8, 1834, in Venice – December 13, 1912, in Venice) was an Italian painter, mainly of Venetian genre scenes, recalling Bamboccianti life of children and women, as well as sacred fresco work for churches in the Veneto. Antonio's father, Ermolao Paoletti, was a well known scholar and writer of Venice. He wrote a much cited expansive guide to its architecture, monuments, artistic works, and customs.
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- 1834 · Venice.
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- 1912 · Venice.
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Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (May 8, 1834, in Venice – December 13, 1912, in Venice) was an Italian painter, mainly of Venetian genre scenes, recalling Bamboccianti life of children and women, as well as sacred fresco work for churches in the Veneto. Antonio's father, Ermolao Paoletti, was a well known scholar and writer of Venice. He wrote a much cited expansive guide to its architecture, monuments, artistic works, and customs.
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Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (1834–1912) was an Italian painter. The painter was born and died in Venice. Antonio Ermolao Paoletti studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
Genres include genre. Works by the painter are held at Gambara Bovardi collection, Gothenburg Museum of Art and Haworth Art Gallery, among others.
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He also wrote a dictionary of Venetian dialect. He was an engraver and painter, and was a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice. Antonio attended course in the Accademia as a pupil of Pompeo Marino Molmenti, and as a colleague of the sculptor Antonio Dal Zotto and the Armenian painter and engraver Edgar Chahine. He displayed in various exhibitions, including Milan in 1872, where he displayed Ecco come va il vino nelle messe; at the 1884 Exhibition of Turin: Flowers for the Holy Virgin and Fa' caro al nonno!; at the 1884 Promotrice Popolana Venicena; il pesce addenti; and in 1885, Il venditore di pesce. Among his many frescoes is the main altarpiece depicting the Madonna of the Rosary with St Anthony and St Materno (1863) for the parish church of Melara. Like his father, Antonio also became a professor at the Accademia.
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti studied at Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Work by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti is recorded in the collections of Gambara Bovardi collection, National Museum in Warsaw, Haworth Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens and Lichfield District Council House.
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1834
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti born at Venice.
1912
Antonio Ermolao Paoletti died at Venice.
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- 1.Il Fiore di Venezia ossia I quadri, i monumenti, le vedute ed i costumi veneziana, (1840) represented in engravings by able artists, and illustrated by Ermolao Paoletti. Volume III, Tommaso Fontana editors.
- 2.Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti., by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 349.
- 3.Alberto Peratoner (a cura di), Dall’Ararat a San Lazzaro: una culla di spiritualità e cultura armena nella laguna di Venezia, Venezia, Congregazione Armena Mechitarista, 2006.
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