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Diotti, Giuseppe
(b Casalmaggiore, Cremona, 21 March 1779; d Bergamo, 30 Jan 1846). Italian painter. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti under the history painter Gaetano Callani (1736–1809). Despite initial support from the financier Gian Vincenzo Ponzoni, by the late 1790s he was having to earn money through small decorating jobs and sign-painting. However, Diotti had learnt from the luminosity and sense of colour of Emilian fresco painting as practised by Andrea Appiani, who became his friend and supporter after 1800 when Diotti arrived in Milan. In 1804 he won a four-year scholarship to Rome with Hercules Stabbing Nessus (untraced). Here he studied under Vincenzo Camuccini, who had recently completed his Poussinesque frescoes at the Villa Borghese.
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