Carlo Bellosio

Carlo Bellosio (Milan, 1801 – Bellagio, 1849) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Lombardy in a Neoclassical style.

He also worked in Trezzo d'Adda, Vertova, Val Seriana, and for the Sanctuary of San Prospero in Cressa in Novara.

Here he collaborated with his master Palagi and his contemporary Vitale Sala to complete a cycle of frescoes and oil paintings on various decorative and mythologic themes.

He returned to Bellagio, where in 1841 he painted another Scene of the Universal Flood, a rich composition with many figures and episodes; after this, again for the Royal Palace of Turin, he painted a fresco of Penelope proposes the archery challenge to the suitors In 1845, he traveled to Russia to visit the site of the Napoleonic Battle of Berezina.

He planned to paint a large composition of this event (Il passaggio della Beresina) which occurred during the retreat of Napoleon, and where many Italian soldiers lost their life.