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Mussini, Luigi

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MUSSINI, LUIGI. - Painter, b. in Berlin on 19 Dec. 1813, d. in Siena on 18 June 1888.

A pupil of Bezzuoli at the Florentine Academy, he took part in the Purist movement, and was in Rome and in Paris, where he met Ingres. Appointed director of the Academy of Siena in 1851, he worked there until his death, also in the field of sacred art, providing the cartoons for the mosaics of the facade of the Sienese Cathedral with the Nativity and the Assumption, and painting for the same Cathedral a canvas depicting St. Crescentius.

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BIBL.: A. M. Comanducci, Pittori italiani dell'800, Milan 1934, p. 465; N. Tarchiani, s. v. in Enc. Ital., XXIV, p. 158 ag.

Emilio Lavagnino

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By Emilio Lavagnino

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), col. 1564.

More by Emilio Lavagnino: Mussini, Augusto, Fra' Paolo · Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban · Nanni d'Antonio di Banco · Nanni di Bartolo, called Il Rosso · Morelli, Domenico

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Lavagnino, Emilio. “Mussini, luigi.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 1564. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/mussini-luigi.

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Lavagnino, Emilio. “Mussini, luigi.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 1564. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mussini-luigi.

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  author    = {Lavagnino, Emilio},
  title     = {Mussini, luigi},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VIII},
  pages     = {1564},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1952},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/mussini-luigi}
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