Antonio Zona

He attended the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, where he studied under Ludovico Lipparini[3] One of his colleagues was Pompeo Marino Molmenti.

In Venice, Zona befriended the followers of the Scapigliatura lifestyle, Bartolomeo Granelli and Ippolito Caffi, frequenting the same caffè Calcina on the Zattere.

In 1859, Zona declined his next major commission, by Prince Maximilian, for a canvas titled L’ingresso degli austriaci a Venezia.

By 1860, he had moved to Milan for some years, and instead painted some canvases with a patriotic theme, including Venezia che desolata abbraccia la liberata Milano (1860) and Un canto funebre (1862 and alluding to the funeral of Count Cavour).

Among his landscapes was a Il tramonto dalla Villa Medici in Rome and a large number of vedute of Venice and other places in Italy.