Carlo Arienti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter
Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1801
Place of Birth: Arcore, Lombardy, Italy
Date of Death: 22-Mar-1873
Profession: painter, academic
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Carlo Arienti
- Carlo Arienti (July 21, 1801 – March 21, 1873) was an Italian painter.
- He was born in Arcore, Brianza (Other sources say Mantua), and trained in the Brera Academy in Milan under Luigi Sabatelli.
- He became a professor of art in the same academy, when he was commissioned to paint the staircase of the royal palace in Turin with a depiction of the victory of the Italian army over the Austrians. In 1837, he painted the Pazzi Conspiracy.
- The anti-Austrian overtones of his paintings caused him to be exiled him from Milan, but he was invited to Turin by the King Charles Albert of Savoy, and made president (1847-1860) of the Accademia Albertina in Turin, then director of the art academy in Bologna in 1860. From 1845, he painted an Angels of Calvary.
- During his years in Piedmont, he painted the Frederick Barbarossa expelled from Alexandria for the Royal Palace Gallery, and later Sister of Jeste, Murder of the Innocents, and a painting of the Pia de' Tolomei.
- The art historian Antonio Caimi described him as having: a firm will and with a dignified independence of character he was able to meet and tame the evil fortune that nearly truncated his young career.
- his youth carrera.
- The severe nature of Ariente guides his brush with an elegance that could give the appearance of affectedness, however which he always kept within the confines of a serious and grandiose art. Arienti went on to replace Giovanni Battista Biscarra as professor of painting at the Accademia Albertina from 1843 to 1860.
- He painted in a neoclassical and romantic style, mainly historic paintings.
- He died in Bologna.
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