Paolo Girgenti (1767/69 – 1819)[1] was an
Italian painter of the late 18th and early 19th-centuries, active in Naples.[2]
He was born in
Agrigento, Sicily, known in
Sicilian language as Girgenti. He studied, along with a Giuseppe Camerata from Sciacca, under
Fedele Fischetti.[3] He became the president of the
Neapolitan Academy of Fine Arts at the beginning of the 19th century. He made a copy of Raphael's Repose in Egypt.[4] He painted a Sleeping Cupid, of which a copy is found in the Museo Pepoli in
Trapani.[5]
References
^Maria Rosaria Nappi,
Disegnatori e incisori fra pittura e editoria Il ruolo della riproduzione fra arte e strumento, Napoli : Edizioni scientifiche italiane, 2015. (in Italian) In footnote 23, Nappi misquotes Grossi (1821) that Girgenti was born in 1768, whereas the source says
circa il 1769. Other, unsourced sites have s 1767 birth. On psge 15, Nappi wrote: ...la contestata carriera di Girgenti si svolge fra il 1790 e il 1819, anno della sua morte, ... (...Girgenti's disputed career took place between 1790 and 1819, the year of his death,...).