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Napoleone Angiolini
Napoleone Angiolini (1797 – June 20, 1871) was an Italian painter.
Biography.
He was born in Bologna. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, and studied under Giovanni Battista Frulli. In 1812 he won a small prize for drawing in the Sala del Nudo. In 1814, in collaboration with Gaetano Orlandi, he painted the portrait of Antonio Vaccari. Angiolini won additional academic awards in 1817, for a painting representing "St John the Baptist"; and in 1821
, which had been vandalized by Napoleonic armies. He also helped restore a painting by Marcantonio Franceschini at the Palazzo Communale, and restore the Domenico Maria Canuti and Enrico Haffner frescoes at the library of San Michele in Bosco. His masterpiece, the curtain (sipario) of the Teatro Comunale, was destroyed in 1931 by fire; only sketches and studies remain. Napoleone Angiolini died in Bologna on June 20, 1871.
Among his pupils was Giulio Cesare Ferrari.