Tommaso Minardi

Tommaso Minardi (December 4, 1787 – January 12, 1871) was an Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns.

Minardi was born in Faenza, Italy to father Carlo, a pharmacist[1] and mother, Rosa Stanghellini of Marradi.

Zauli and a local erudite writer, Dionigi Strocchi, helped him obtain from 1803 to 1810 a scholarship from a religious fraternity of Faenza, called the Congregation of San Gregorio.

[3] His skill as a draughtsman gained him the appointment in 1822 as professor of drawing at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, replacing the recently deceased Luigi Agricola.

Minardi and colleagues, Friedrich Overbeck, Pietro Tenerani, and Antonio Bianchini [it] published a treatise on art titled ‘’Del purismo nelle arti of 1843’’.

[4] He painted an Apparition of the Virgin to St Stanislao Kostka (1824) for the chamber in which the Saint died; in the Jesuit Novitiate at Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.