Felice Schiavoni

Felice Schiavoni (19 March 1803 – 30 June 1881) was an Italian painter, depicting history, genre, and portraits.

He was first a pupil of his father, and he then studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, where he won a prize, and later at Venice and Vienna.

Among his works are a Death of Raphael Sanzio painted during a period of 15 years for Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and for which he was paid 60 thousand Lire.

The large canvas was a scholarly tour-de-force which included 16 portraits of famous Italian artists, assembled to grieve at the bedside of the dying painter, including Pierin del Vago, La Fornarina, Giulio Romano, Andrea Navagero, Cardinal Pietro Bembo, Ludovico Ariosto, Michelangelo, and Benvenuto Cellini.

[1] He also painted a Miracle of St. Anthony of Padua and a Saints Simon Stock and Anthony of Padua for a church in Trieste; a Raphael and the Fornarina for the Tosi Gallery, Venice; a Cupid for the Brera Gallery in Milan; a Christ bearing the Cross; a Christ Asleep; a Torquato Tasso reading to Eleonora; a Repose in Egypt (1824); a Venus and Cupid (1832); a Madonna (1854); a Raphael painting the Fornarina (1861); and a Holy Family (1864).