Domenico De Angelis
Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (18th century)
Domenico De Angelis (15 February 1735 – 10 March 1804) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period. Born Domenico Turreggia in Ponzano, he changed his name to De Angelis by 1750, when he moved to Rome with his brother Giuseppe.
Biography
He is said to have received training from Marco Benefial. He won a prize in 1757 from the Accademia del Nudo (organized in the Campidoglio in 1754). In Rome in 1769, he married Domenico married Teresa, daughter of the landscape painter Paolo Anesi. In 1771, the Prince Marcantonio Borghese commissioned a series of frescoes depicting the Story of Hercules and Apollo for a ground floor hall in the Villa Borghese, Rome. In 1775–1776, he painted canvases with the Story of Galatea, and in 1779, the story of Troy for other rooms in the Villa. In 1774 he was named academic of the Accademia di San Luca. He was commissioned to decorate the Gabinetto delle Maschere for the Museo Pio-Clementino of the Vatican. He also worked as a restorer of classic Renaissance canvases.
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