Angelo Maria Mazzia

Angelo Maria Mazzia (7 October 1825 in Roggiano Gravina, Province of Cosenza – 2 January 1890 in Naples) was an Italian painter.

He was initially given a standard classical education in Letters at the local Seminary of San Marco, but when he was awarded a scholarship by the province he moved to Naples, to study veterinary medicine.

Also worth mentioning are The Assumption with a Choir of Angels; Saint Cristina (Royal Palace of Caserta); The Virgin of the Catacombs (Museo di Capodimonte); Pope Clement VII and Emperor Charles V (1864); Dante in the Bedlam of the Hypocrites (1866); and Dante in the Light, Rome in Darkness (1872), which was exhibited at the Brera Academy .

He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Crown of Italy, and was honorary President of the Society of Mechanical Operators in Portici.

[clarification needed][1] His portrait of Errico Petrella is in the picture gallery of the Music Conservatories of Naples.