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Biagio Martini (5 February 1761 – 26 August 1840) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a Neoclassical style.

Biography

Biagio Epaminonda Maria Martini was born at Parma, to the same family as the engraver Pietro Antonio Martini. Biagio was a pupil at the Parmesan Academy of Fine Arts under Gaetano Callani and Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari. He became a professor at the academy. At the academy, he is said to have taught design to Paolo Toschi. He married Costanza, who was also a painter and the daughter of Giuseppe Baldrighi. Giuseppe, who died in 1803, was court painter in Parma for the Bourbon Duke.

Among his works are a juvenile Diogenes in the Ducal collections, and a Death of Socrates which won a prize at the academy in 1791. He painted a Deposition for the Church of the Cappuccini in Parma. He also painted a Saints Gervaso and Protaso, and a Meeting of Pope Paul III with Emperor Charles V. He was awarded knighthood in the Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio by the Parmesan court.

References

1. Encyclopedia Treccani, entry on Martini.
2. Enciclopedia metodica critico-ragionata delle belle arti by Pietro Zani, page 83.
3. Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani illustri o benemeriti nelle scienze, nelle lettere, e nelle arti, by Giovanni Battista Janelli, Genoa, 1877, pages 242.

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