Achille Glisenti

Achille Glisenti (October 1, 1848 – December 21, 1906) was an Italian painter, mostly of elegant genre and Orientalist subjects.

He then traveled to Munich in Germany, where he made contact with former members of the Academy of Vienna who often painted in non-conventional styles, including Wilhelm von Dietz of the Munich school, Arnold Böcklin, and Richard Zimmermann and his brothers.

Glisenti returned to Florence to paint and open an antiquarian gallery.

He often depicted scena galante in 17th-century garb as well as orientalist themes, which appealed to the American and British buyers.

After the early 1880s, he lost vision due to an ophthalmic malady, and stopped painting.