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Prospero Minghetti
Prospero Minghetti (January 2, 1786 – February 17, 1853) was an Italian painter.
Biography.
He was born in Reggio Emilia. He first trained locally with Camuncoli, then Giovanni Battista Frulli and the engraver Francesco Rosaspina in Bologna, then moved to Rome to the circle of Canova and Minardi. In Reggio, he painted a "St John the Baptist" for Cathedral of Reggio; a "Santa Filomena" for church of San Giorgio; a "San Bartolomeo and other Saints" for
Family until 1685. It was rebuilt in the 1700s under the patronage of the new owner Count Guicciardi using designs by the architect Giovanni Maria Ferraroni, and refurbished in the early 1800s in a Neoclassical style by Marchelli, when the palace was acquired by the Spalletti-Trivelli family, who also owned the adjacent building.
A salon of the piano nobile has a ceiling painting depicting "Apollo with the Court of the Hours" by Prospero Minghetti, and a ball room with trompe-l'oeil colonnades and curtains painted by Vincenzo Carnevali