Francesco Coghetti

Who was Francesco Coghetti?

Francesco Coghetti was an Italian painter. He was instructed in painting by Diotti di Casalmaggiore in the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo. He went afterwards to Rome, where he became a disciple of Camuccini, and studied the works of Raphael. He is sometimes confused with his contemporary, and sometimes collaboratoring painter, Luigi Cochetti. He presided for many years over the Academy of San Luca at Rome, and was the representative of classic art in the early part of the 19th century. Among works are:

Two altar-pieces at the Accademia Carrara.

Several frescoes for the Palazzo Morlachi in Bergamo.

Frescoes in the cupola of the Bergamo Cathedral.

Scenes from the Life of Alexander. The Four Elements. The Triumph of Bacchus. The Battle of the Amazons; frescoes, now lost, for the Villa Torlonia, Rome.

The Assumption for a church in Porto Maurizio.

Ceiling frescoes of angels and prophets; Julius II lays the first stone of the St. Peter's Basilica and Sixtus IV blesses armies fighting Turks, and Christ clears moneylenders from the temple; for the Cathedral in Savona.

Pope Eugene III blesses the armies of Amadeo II leaving for a crusade commissioned by Queen Maria Cristina in 1846 for the castle of Aglié.