LIPPARINI, Ludovico

Italian painter. In Venice, he followed the teachings of Liberale Cossa and especially those of Teodoro Matteini, as shown by his Socrates Finds Alcibiades in the Gynaeceum, painted between 1829 and 1830. In the modern style inspired by his master and father-in-law, Matteini, Ludovico begun producing portraits (memorable is that of Leopoldo Cicognara, 1825, now in the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice). In 1831, he became professor of Principles of Drawing at the Accademia and in 1848 professor of Principles of Painting. In 1845, he went in the direction of historical Romanticism, which Hayez had already undertaken some years earlier.