Gasparo Landi
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Gasparo Landi (1756-1830) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period.
He was born at Piacenza, but later trained with Pompeo Batoni and Domenico Corvi at Rome. He was Director and President of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome, and obtained the first prize at the Academy at Parma in 1781. He died at Rome. He contributed canvases for the Pitti Palace, a Maries at the Tomb and a Burial of the Virgin and a The Ascent to Calvary for the cathedral at Piacenza.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 11.
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