Raffaele Casnedi

Filippo Tobia Raffaele Casnedi (26 September 1822, Dumenza - 29 December 1892, Milan) was an Italian painter and decorative designer.

When he turned eighteen, rather than becoming a partner in the hotel, he chose to pursue his interest in art and enrolled at the Accademia di Brera; much to his family's disappointment.

From 1856 to 1860, he worked in Rho, for the Oblates of Saints Ambrose and Charles, creating "The Curse of the Serpent" at their Sanctuary of the Blessed Virgin of the Sorrows.

His notable students would include Pietro Bouvier [it], Francesco Didioni, Angelo Morbelli and Giovanni Sottocornola[1] Once again, he focused on religious frescoes; in Abbiategrasso, Inverigo, Inveruno, Marcallo, Olginate, and Luino.

An exception was from 1861 to 1863, when he and Giuseppe Bertini, an old friend from his school days, painted the curtain at the Teatro alla Scala with the "Tales of the Atlanteans".