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Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (Roraigrande di Pordenone, 29 August 1801 – Venice, 11 February 1870) was an Italian painter. He was born to Osvaldo and Teresa De Michieli, into a family of peasant origins. Read the full biography

Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti (Roraigrande di Pordenone, 29 August 1801 – Venice, 11 February 1870) was an Italian painter. He was born to Osvaldo and Teresa De Michieli, into a family of peasant origins. His artistic qualities were noticed by an uncle who was a parish priest, thanks to whom, from 1820, he managed to attend the Academy of Venice, in a period in which neoclassicism was being replaced by romantic painting. He then became a teacher at the art school; among his students, we remember Giacomo Favretto, Federico Zandomeneghi, Tranquillo Cremona, Eugenio Prati, Albano Tomaselli and Gian Battista Carrer. He was appreciated as the author of religious works (altarpieces) and historical-literary themes, but his notoriety came above all from his numerous portraits. He also left works abroad, such as in Hungary. The Grigoletti Scientific High School in Pordenone is named after him.