GRIGOLETTI, Michelangelo
(b. 1801 Rorai Grande, d. 1870 Venezia)
Italian painter, pupil of Matteini in Venice. He painted historical and religious paintings in the academic style (I due Foscari, 1838, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, altarpieces for the Cathedral of Esztergom and Cathedral of Erlau, for churches in Friuli, Cadore, Trento, etc.). Some of his portraits are counted among the good examples of nineteenth-century Italian painting.
He was the master of Giacomo Favretto.
