Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti, an Italian Neoclassical painter, was born in Rorai Grande in 1801 and passed away in Venice in 1870. He began his artistic journey at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, studying under Teodoro Matteini and becoming a colleague of Lodovico Lipparino. Grigoletti expressed gratitude to Pordenone by presenting the city with a copy from Bonifazio Veronese in 1824 and later traveled to Rome in 1835. Grigoletti secured a teaching position at the Academy in 1830, eventually becoming a full professor in 1849. His pupils included notable artists such as Giacomo Favretto, Cesare Dell'Acqua, and Frederick Zandomeneghi. Among his celebrated works are depictions like "Lucia at the feet of the Unnamed," "Erminia seeing Tancredi fall bleeding from his saddle," and "Venetian doge Francesco Foscari bids farewell to his son Jacopo." Notable masterpieces include the "Education of the Virgin" in Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, Trieste, and the "Assumption of the Virgin" for the Basilica of Esztergom in Hungary. Grigoletti's legacy endures, evident in the naming of the "Liceo Scientifico Statale Michelangelo Grigoletti" in Pordenone. He passed away in Venice at the age of 68.

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