Santo Cattaneo

Santo or Sante Cattaneo (1739-1819) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia.

He was also called "Santino". He was born at Salo. His parents traveled away and consigned him at age three to thirteen to his aunt. He then moved to Brescia to live with his mother, who worked in wool looms. He at first practised wood-engraving, but afterwards studied painting under Antonio Dusi of Brescia and then, with Francesco Monti (il Brescianino). He settled at Brescia in 1773, and in 1810 became professor of drawing in the Lyceum of that city, where he died. He painted many devotional works in Brescia. Among Cattaneo's pupils are Domenico Vantini and Carlo Frigerio.

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