Biagio Martini

Biagio Martini (5 February 1761 – 26 August 1840) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a Neoclassical style.

Biagio was a pupil at the Parmesan Academy of Fine Arts under Gaetano Callani and Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari.

Giuseppe, who died in 1803, was court painter in Parma for the Bourbon Duke.

[2] Among his works are a juvenile Diogenes in the Ducal collections, and a Death of Socrates which won a prize at the academy in 1791.

He also painted a Saints Gervaso and Protaso, and a Meeting of Pope Paul III with Emperor Charles V. He was awarded knighthood in the Ordine Costantiniano di San Giorgio by the Parmesan court.