Gaetano Moroni [SEP] place of death
Gaetano Moroni
Gaetano Moroni (17 October 1802, Rome – 3 November 1883, Rome) was an Italian writer on the history and contemporary structure of the Catholic Church and an official of the papal court in Rome. He was the author of the well-known "Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica" ("Dictionary of historical-ecclesiastical learning").
Biography.
He received his early education from the Brothers of the Christian Schools at Rome. Apprenticed later to a barber, his duties frequentIy took him
painted Gaetano Moroni.
In the years 1842–1846 he was back in St. Petersburg, where in 1845, for his work "Portrait of Field-Marshal Iwan Paskiewicz" he received the title of Academician. In 1846 he moved to Warsaw, where after the death of Aleksander Kokular he occupied the chair of drawing and figure painting in the School of Fine Arts, of which from 1858 to 1864 he was director, with the patronage of Tsar Alexander II. In 1860 he became one of the organisers of the Society for the