Geremia Discanno | |
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 Geremia Discanno, painter, before 1907 | |
| Born | 20 May 1839 Barletta, Italy |
| Died | 14 January 1907 (aged 67) Naples, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, Illustrator, inventor |
| Notable work | contained in Pompeian Wall Decorations for artists and arts schools and friends of ancient times published by Emil Presuhn |
Geremia Discanno (sometimes spelled Di Scanno) (20 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Italian genre and landscape painter,[1] who collaborated with archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli, art historian Emil Presuhn, and Naples-based chromolithographer Victor Steeger, to record wall paintings in the Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were being excavated at the time.
- ^ Bénézit, Emmanuel (1924). Critical and documentary dictionary of painters, sculptors, designers & engravers of all times and all countries (1854-1920) (V. 2 ed.). Paris, E. Gründ.