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Michetti Francesco Paolo (Tocco da Casauria, 4 August 1851[1] – Francavilla al Mare, 5 March 1929). He was born to Crispino Michetti, music teacher, and Aurelia Terzini. Read the full biography

Michetti Francesco Paolo (Tocco da Casauria, 4 August 1851[1] – Francavilla al Mare, 5 March 1929). He was born to Crispino Michetti, music teacher, and Aurelia Terzini. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he was a pupil, with Edoardo Dalbono, of the master Domenico Morelli, whose naturalism and visionary realism he initially imitated: a promising young man, his work was also immediately noticed by Filippo Palizzi, his fellow countryman, who lived in Naples in those years. Like many painters of the time, since 1871 Michetti had also been interested in photography, initially only as a procedure for studying the subjects of his paintings from life, then also as a new and autonomous means of expression, also making use of direct graphic interventions on them photographic matrices.