Antonio Marini

Early in his career, he painted frescoes, including one depicting Zeus in Olympus, for the Esterhazy Palace in Vienna.

He developed an anachronistic style that imitated quattrocento painters, learned in part from his activity restoring such works.

He is described by 1836 by the contemporary Luigi Mussini as having begun to paint Madonnas weakly imitated after the neo-purism of the (pre-Raphaelite) Germans such as Overbeck and his associates.

[1] Among his frescoes are those depicting: Sacred and Profane Music, Poetry, and a Choir of Putti (1852) in a salon of the house of count Guicciardini and in the Palazzo Martelli in Florence.

He painted the frescoes of the Life of St Anne for the chapel dei Giuntini in San Giuseppe.