Camillo Guerra

At the age of twelve he began to study drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, under Costanzo Angelini.

He was also influenced by Vincenzo Camuccini and Pietro Benvenuti, who inspired him to paint historical and mythological subjects.

In 1830, he created an altarpiece depicting the "Glory of St.Joseph" at the church of San Francesco di Paola, commissioned by King Francis I .

In the 1840s, with Gennaro Maldarelli, Filippo Marsigli, and Giuseppe Cammarano, he helped decorate rooms in the Royal Palace, now part of the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III.

From 1846 to 1852, he painted an imposing fresco of the Celestial Paradise, based on a vision of St John the Evangelist, in the cupola of the Church of the Gerolomini (partly destroyed in 1943) [1]