Benedetto Servolini

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Benedetto Servolini (Florence, February 25, 1805 -1879^[1] ) was an Italian painter, mainly of historical subjects.

Biography

In 1822, a watercolor sketch won a minor award from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.^[2] Silvestro Lega was a pupil of Servolini. Servolini taught at the Academy of Florence. Among his works, are:^[3]

Mary Stuart
The (Girdle of) Hippolyta and Deianira
Buondelmonte Buondelmonti
Death of Filippo Strozzi (1833, now at the Accademia, Florence).

References

↑ Date of death found in Checklist of Painters, C1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library by Witt Library, page 465.
↑ Antologia: giornale di scienze, lettere e arti, Volume 8, page 199, October–December 1822, Al Gabinetto Scientifico e Letterario di GP Vieusseux, Florence.
↑ Saltini, Guglielmo Enrico (1862). Le Arti Belle in Toscana da mezzo il Secolo XVIII ai di Nostri (book). Florence, Italy: Tipografia Le Monnier. p. 59.

Persondata
Name	Servolini, Benedetto
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	February 25, 1805
Place of birth	Florence, Italy
Date of death	1879
Place of death

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