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Scipione Vannutelli
Italian painter
Scipione Vannutelli (November in Genazzano, Papal States – in Rome, Kingdom of Italy) was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style.
His father was opposed to his study of art, but ultimately found a position as a pupil of Tommaso Minardi, then of the Viennese painter, Karl Wursinger, and later studied in Paris. He was successful in the Parisian Salon exhibition of when he gained the praise of art historian Léon Lagrange.
Scipione vannutelli biography
He continued to paint mainly historical subjects depicting, for example Fra Girolamo Savonarola, Mary Stuart at the Scaffold (Pitti Palace, Florence), and the Funeral of Juliet (, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome).
He had a studio in the Palazzo Pamphili on Piazza Navona.[2] He was named as the superintendent of the Royal Calcografia (Engraving) Ministry. His daughter Giuseppina Vannutelli was also a painter.
In , he was awarded a medal at the Paris Exposition for his canvas:Stroll of th