Luigi Basiletti

Place: Brescia

Born: 1780

Death: 1859

Biography:

Luigi Basiletti was an Italian painter, engraver, architect, and archeologist. He was born in Brescia on April 18, 1780, and died on January 25, 1859. He was a pupil of Sante Cattaneo and painted sacred subjects, mythology, and landscapes. He painted a Cascade at Tivoli for the Brera Academy at Milan and is also represented by a Niobe and the landscapes Lago d’Iseo, Tempio di Sibilla, and Pozzuoli at the Galleria Tosio Martinengo in Brescia. He painted frescoes for rooms in the Atheneum, and the Palazzo Martinengo. He contributed to the architectural decoration of the cupola by Luigi Cagnola for the Duomo Nuovo of Brescia (1820) and with the architect Vita a design for the Mercato del Grano (1820–1823). He designed the entrance staircase to the parish church of Gussago. He formed part of an archeologic commission in 1823 established in Brescia. He became an associate of the Brescian Atheneum (1810) and censor (1816–1844) and was admitted as an associated of the Brera Academy (1828).