Alejandro Cicarelli

Chile · 1811–1879

Alejandro Ciccarelli Manzoni, originally Alessandro Ciccarelli was an Italian-born Chilean painter and educator. He was the first director of the Academy of Painting in Santiago, Chile. == Biography == He began his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, and completed them in Rome, where he came under the influence of the Neoclassical painter Vincenzo Camuccini. In 1843, he was introduced to Emperor Pedro II of Brazil, who hired him as a court painter and Master of Painting for the Empress consort, Teresa Cristina. At the age of thirty-three, he became the leading artist in Brazil and was charged with reorganizing the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro.

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