Giulio Cesare Arrivabene

Giulio Cesare Arrivabene (1806, Mantua – 1896, Florence[1]) was an Italian painter, active initially in a neoclassical style, mainly painting historic and religious canvases.

He painted a Il divorzio di Enrico VIII (The Divorce of Henry VIII) for the Marchese Ala Ponzone of Milan; and a Cola di Rienzo and Italy at the foot of the Virgin (exhibited in 1850 at Turin).

In 1841, he was commissioned by the Savoy Royal family to create a painting depicting the Reconsecration of the Hautecombe Abbey for the Castello di Racconigi.

He painted a Henry IV at Canossa (Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, Mantua), Apotheosis of San Leonardo (Apse of church of San Leonardo, Mantua), and Imelda de' Lambertazzi (exhibited in 1870 at Parma).

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