Giovanni Piancastelli

By virtue of the patronage of Counts Giuseppe Rossi and Domenico Zauli Naldi, by 1860, he had enrolled at the Scuola di Disegno in Faenza, where his teacher was Achille Farina.

In 1862, through the patronage of Duke Camillo Zacchia, he then traveled to Rome where he apprenticed under Guido Guidi.

Among his works are Campagna Romana; Emigrazione dall'Agro Romano (The Immigrants of the Roman countryside, displayed at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition); Marina; Spiaggia al Tramonto; and the Moglie del Marinaio (Sailor's Wife exhibited at Turin).

At Bologna in 1888, he exhibited a painting on wood entitled Atropo and a water color titled Charitas.

[3] He became the curator of the Borghese art collection and aided Adolfo Venturi in completing his catalogue of the works in 1893.