Raffaelle Gioavanetti (1822–1911) was an Italian painter, known mainly for his Neoclassical depictions of historic and sacred subjects in large canvases.
Biography
He was born in Lucca. He trained under Stefano Tofanelli, then after the latter's death, along with Michele Ridolfi went to study in Rome with Cammuccini. Gioavanetti painted for the Vatican Museum, a lunette depicting Pius VII exhibiting the tapestries of Raphael.[1] Giovannetti painted the Portrait of Carlo Lodovico of Bourbon (1823) in the Ducal Palace of Lucca.
In 1845, Professor Giovannetti was named Inspector of the Objects of Fine Arts of the Duchy of Lucca.[2]
References
Memorie e documenti per servire alla storia di Lucca, Volume 8; Presso Francesco Bertini, Tipografo Ducale, Lucca 1822; page 187.
Bollettino delle leggi del Ducato lucchese by Francesco Gaetano Carrara, Published in Lucca, 1845, page 100.
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