Roberto Bompiani

February 10, 1821 (age 86)

Rome, Province of Rome, Italy

He was remarkably prolific, specially as a painter. He is particularly known for paintings of scenes from Ancient Rome, for which he gained the nickname "the Italian Bouguereau". Among his sculptural works, almost all from 1865-1870) are Sappho (Palazzo Castellani, Rome), Ruth, and the statuettes Amore che cerca chi deve ferire and Alexander tames Bucephalus. He also painted frescoes in San Lorenzo in Lucina. Frescoes in Santa Maria in Trastevere: San Romano Martyr and the fresco on the portico of the Cemetery of Campo Verano: Moses" Curse: Death of the First-born of Egypt. At the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia, Bompiani exhibits a Roman girl placing garlands on the bust of his father and the Suonatore di Tibia (Flutist). These were the first of his popular Pompeian works. He painted Catullus at the banks of the Tiber, l"Affissatore pompeiano, the Triclinium, and a partita a gli astragali. He rose to become professor and president of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Roberto Bompiani

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Background

Bompiani was born in Rome, where, by the age of fifteen, he had enrolled at the Accademia di San Luca, where in 1836 he shared a first prize with fellow student in design, Angelo Valeriani.

Career

He was remarkably prolific, specially as a painter. He is particularly known for paintings of scenes from Ancient Rome, for which he gained the nickname "the Italian Bouguereau". Among his sculptural works, almost all from 1865-1870) are Sappho (Palazzo Castellani, Rome), Ruth, and the statuettes Amore che cerca chi deve ferire and Alexander tames Bucephalus.

He also painted frescoes in San Lorenzo in Lucina.

Frescoes in Santa Maria in Trastevere: San Romano Martyr and the fresco on the portico of the Cemetery of Campo Verano: Moses" Curse: Death of the First-born of Egypt. At the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 in Philadelphia, Bompiani exhibits a Roman girl placing garlands on the bust of his father and the Suonatore di Tibia (Flutist).

These were the first of his popular Pompeian works. He painted Catullus at the banks of the Tiber, l"Affissatore pompeiano, the Triclinium, and a partita a gli astragali.

He rose to become professor and president of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome.

Achievements

By 1839, he was able to win prizes both in sculpture and painting at the Accademia. He exhibited at the Mostra internazionale of Vienna he won an award for his portrait of Giovanni Battista Canevari (1872), that now hangs at the Accademia di San Luca.

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