Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti [SEP] occupation
Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti
Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (29 August, 1801 – 11 February, 1870) was an Italian painter, active in a Neoclassical style.
Biography.
Born at Pordenone to a humble family, he was encouraged by an uncle priest who arranged for him to enroll in the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, where he was a colleague of Lodovico Lipparino. Among his masterworks are "Lucia at the feet of the Unnamed" (episode in Manzoni's novel "I Promesi Sposi"), "Erminia
and 49 m wide. It has a reverberation time of more than 9 seconds. Its dome, forming a semi-sphere, is situated in the middle, and it has 12 windows. It is 71.5 m high inside, with a diameter of 33.5 metres, and is 100 m high from outside, the stairs count 400 steps counted from the crypt.
The altarpiece (13.5 × 6.6 metres, depicting the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti) is the