Michele Bisi

Michele Bisi (April 18, 1788 – December 26, 1874)[1] was an Italian engraver and painter born in the Republic of Genoa.

[2] Bisi first distinguished himself by the publication of the Pinacoteca del Palazzo Reale delle Scienze e delle Arti di Milano for which he was aided by his brother's wife, Ernesta Legnani Bisi, who, like her husband Giuseppe Bisi, had studied under Giuseppe Longhi.

In 1819 he undertook a series of engravings from the paintings of Andrea Appiani, in which he was assisted by some of the best scholars of Longhi.

[2] Subsequently he made engravings of:[2] Bisi also succeeded as a painter of landscapes.

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