Paolo Girgenti

Paolo Girgenti (c. 1769 – after 1800) was an Italian painter of the late 18th and early 19th-centuries, active in Naples.[1]

Biography

He was born in Agrigento, Sicily, known in Sicilian language as Girgenti. He studied, along with a Giuseppe Camerata from Sciacca, under Fedele Fischetti.[2] He became the president of the Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts at the beginning of the 19th century. He made a copy of Raphael's Repose in Egypt[3] He painted a Sleeping Cupid, of which a copy is found in the Museo Pepoli in Trapani.[4]

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