Gregorio Guglielmi

Gregorio Guglielmi (13 December 1714, Rome - 2 February 1773, Saint Petersburg) was an Italian-born fresco painter who worked primarily in Germany.

However, Queen Maria Amalia introduced him to her father, Elector Frederick Augustus II, who arranged for him to work in Dresden.

In 1755, he created frescoes, inspired by Metastasio, at what is now the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and in Schönbrunn Palace, upon commission by the Sardinian ambassador, Luigi Gerolamo Malabaila (1704-1773).

[2] The following year, he made a temporary return to Italy to paint an altarpiece at the Chiesa dei Santi Martiri [it] and murals at the Royal Palace in Turin, followed by frescoes at the Cappella Colleoni in Bergamo.

[1] In fact, it was said (by the sculptor, Étienne Maurice Falconet), that he died of a "putrid fever" after Catherine severely criticized a portrait of her.