Enrico Scuri

By 13 years of age, he became a pupil of Giuseppe Diotti, where he overlapped with Francesco Coghetti and Giovanni Carnovali.

Among his paintings of sacred subjects are the following: St Simon Stock, receives the scapular from the Virgin Mary, altarpiece commissioned by the fabbriceria of Calolzio; Saints Nazarius and Celsus condemned to Martyrdom commissioned by the fabbriceria of Urgnano; Saint Helen and the Miracle of the Cross, commissioned by the fabbriceria of Rudiano; The Triumph of the Addolorata, for the church of San Lorenzo in Lodi; The Transit of St Joseph for the parochial church of Seriate; and Blessing of the Children, commissioned by Count Petrobelli of Bergamo.

Among his paintings of historical or romantic subjects are: Death of Aganodeca (Ossian); The Hunt of Bernabò Visconti (nocturne commissioned by marchese Antonio Visconti of Milan); Final Scene of Filippo by Alfieri; Diana and Endymion, a moonlit scene; Satan surprised by the Angel Ithuriel, (moonlit scene based on Milton's Paradise Lost), bought by prince Pyotr Gorchakov of St Petersburg, Russia; Tardi rimorsi; Dance of Death (Goethe) in two paintings of moonlit scenes; A Witch's Sabbath (lamp-lit); and E caddi come corpo morto cade (based on lines from Dante).

He also made drawings for the Last Night of Nero, inspired by the drama of Pietro Cossa, and pursued as a design for a sipario (theater curtain), exhibited at Turin in 1875, and at a hall of the Carrara Academy.

After the death of Diotti, he replaced his master as director of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, where he taught for forty years.