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Vincenzo Riolo
Italian painter

Vincenzo Riolo

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Italian painter
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Place of birth
Palermo
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Palermo
Age
65 years
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Vincenzo Riolo (February 14, 1772 in Palermo, Sicily – July 5, 1837) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassical style, active mainly in his native Sicily.

Biography

He trained in Palermo initially with Antonio Manno and Francesco Sozzi, but at the age of twenty moved to Rome to work under Giovanni Battista Wicar. Among his contemporaries in Palermo was Giuseppe Patania.

He married Anna, the daughter of the painter Giuseppe Velazquez in Palermo. In 1828, he replaced his father in law as professor at the Accademia del nudo in Palermo.

He painted a portrait of his friend, Vincenzo Monti. Among other works, he painted frescoes in the Palazzo Tasca and Gangi, in the Real Casino (Villa) della Favorita, the church of Olivella, and the Royal Palace (Reggia) of Ficuzza. He died in 1837 during a cholera epidemic in Palermo

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