Giuseppe Molteni belongs to the record of art as a figure whose work outlasted the taste that first received it.
The record lists Giuseppe Molteni as Italian painter (1800-1867).
Giuseppe Molteni was born at Affori in 1800. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Brera Academy.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
He worked as painter and restorer.
His best-known work is The Confession. Art history is a record of what got kept, which is not the same as what was best.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Giuseppe Molteni died in 1867, aged 67. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Confession
