Luigi Deleidi, Detto Il Nebbia Biography
Luigi Deleidi was a famous Italian painter, also known by the pseudonym "Il Nebbia" for his style of treating color with light hues and shades, and for portraying foggy skies. He was born in Bergamo in 1784 into a family of artists, who initiated him into an artistic career.
He studied at the school of Painting and Scenography in Milan under the guidance of the set designer Alessandro Sanquirico. Thanks to his skill as an ornamentalist, Deleidi was called at a mature age to decorate the dining room of the Camozzi Vertova castle in Costa Mezzate with ancient paintings of landscapes and figures. In 1837, in Rome, he left the mark of his art in the Palazzo Torlonia in Castel Gandolfo.
Deleidi was also a music enthusiast and loved to perform bassoon solos in public in the theaters where operas were staged. This allowed him to come into contact with many artists of the time, such as Donizetti, Coghetti and Bonomini.
The painting “Donizetti with friends”, preserved in the Donizetti Museum in Bergamo, is a good example of a still life created by Deleidi.
The painter was included in the Romantic movement for his paintings which, mainly representing landscapes, gave great importance to the human figure, the center of the observer's attention. He created many examples of this genre until his death in 1853 in Bergamo.
Among his valuable works are the "Winter landscape with soldiers and dying horse", "Snowfall", "Winter landscape with bridge and fortress" (Bergamo, coll. Rodeschini), and many others
