Farnesi   Apartment
in Rome - Campo dei Fiori
 
  An exclusive accommodation for rent
 
near Piazza Navona, Campo dei Fiori
Colosseum, Pantheon, St. Peter's
for your holiday in ancient Rome, Italy..
  BIAGIO BIAGETTI (1887 - 1948)    
 
           
Biagio Biagetti Biagio Biagetti, Natività, oil on canvas, 1922 Biagio Biagetti, frescos, 1912
  Biagio Biagetti   "Natività"   Frescos
1922 1922, oil on canvas 1912
 
   
 
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Barbara and Vittorio Cintoli, the owners of Farnesi Apartment, are pleased
to let you know their illustrious ancestor Biagio Biagetti.
 
They have opened a museum dedicated to the painter (Vittorio's great
grandfather) in Recanati, a lovely town in Marche, where they live, famous also
to have gives the natives to Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837), one of the greatest
poets of every times.
 
In the family palace there are many of the Biagio Biagetti's works, which you
will admire covering the ancient halls of the palace.
If you are interested to visit our museum in Recanati you can mail us,
contact us or compile the booking form.
(Photos of the Biagetti palace)
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  Biagio Biagetti is born in Portorecanati, a small lovely sea town in Marche (centre of
  Italy) in 1887. Ludovico Seitz's* pupil, learns from the teacher the culture of the great
  painters of 1400.
 
  * Lodovico Seitz
 
( b Rome, 11 June 1844; d Rome, 11 Sept 1908). Italian painter and mosaicist of
German descent. He was the son of the Nazarene painter Alexander Maximilian Seitz
(1811/88) and inherited his father's interest in the religious painting of the 1400.
 
Authentic interpreter of "Holy Art", Biagetti executes frescos and mosaics in Rome
and in the most important nothern basilicas of the Italy center.
 
1921: Benedetto XV names Biagio Biagetti Director of the Pinacoteca Vaticana
and of the Holy Apostolic Palaces
1922: He founds the Vatican Laboratory for restoration of the Art works
1931: Pope Pio XI entrusts him the restoration of the Michelangelo's "Last Judjement"
in the Sistine Chapel
 
1932/1944: Pope Pio XI entrusts him the new arrangement of the "Pinacoteca
Vaticana"
 
1932/1944: Executes important works and restorations in Vaticano, he writes and
keep conferences on the great painters of the Renaissance, receives honours and
instructs in the most prestigious Italian Academies of Art and Culture.
 
1946/1947: He directs the restoration of the Dome of Basilica Lauretana.
 
 
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