About Francesco Darosio
Lived 1744 – 1788 (aged 43–44). Francesco Darosio was a painter.
Francesco Darosio (1744 – 1788) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in Cremona and Rome.
Biography He was a pupil of Giacomo Guerrini in Cremona, and obtained a stipend to study in Rome.
He engraved a depiction of the frescoes in the walls of the Vatican library for the work of Augustinus Vairani called Cremonensium Monumenta Romae extantia. Darosio died poverty in the Hospital of San Carlo of Rome.
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Italian painter (1744-1788)
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Francesco Darosio was born in 1744 in Cremona.
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Francesco Darosio died in 1788 in Rome.
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Francesco Darosio was a painter.
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