Education
As a boy and a young man, he studied in the local school of design and painting with the engraver Giuseppe Marri (1788-1852), architect Pietro Tomba (1774-1846), and painter Achille Farina.
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Antonio Berti
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With the help of local patrons, in 1852 he traveled to Florence for five years to study at the Academy of Fine Arts under Ciseri, Pollastrini, and Ussi. He was a minor collaborator in the completion of the Ussi"s large canvas of The Expulsion of the Duke of Athens. In 1906, he was named director
From those years are some canvases inspired by Orientalist subjects, and inspired by Ussi.
Among his masterworks are: Louisiana Famiglia Castellani (1867-1869. Pinacoteca di Faenza) and the Lady with Umbrella.
He also painted ceramics.
