Luigi Sabatelli

Italian painter, printmaker and draughtsman. After training in Florence in the Neo-classical tradition, he won a scholarship and settled in Rome between 1789 and 1794. His patron Tommaso Puccini was an intellectual and connoisseur who later became Director of the Gallerie Fiorentine... Sabatelli borrowed explicitly from Classical works, as can be seen in his reconstruction of the furnishings, clothing and hairstyles of the Roman period, and in his use of a type of drawing practised by the followers of David. After a stay in Venice, he returned to Florence in 1795 and between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th, Sabatelli worked on a group of etchings of the Via Crucis that became... more.