Filippo Pelagio Palagi (1775–1860)

• Was an Italian painter, sculptor and interior decorator.
• Pelagi was born in Bologna.
• He studied at the school of nudes of the Accademia Clementina of Bologna.
• He moved to Rome in 1806 to complete his studies at the Accademia di San Luca.
• From 1813 Palagi was inspector of the Accademia Italiana.
• In 1815, after a brief stay in Bologna, the artist moved to Milan.
• In Milan he opened a private school in open competition with the Accademia di Brera.
• He died in Turin in 1860.
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