Baldassare Calamai
Baldassare Calamai was an Italian painter, active in a neoclassical style, painting mainly historical subjects.
Biography
He was a pupil of Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Saltini, who likely knew the artist, bemoans his failure to achieve greatness, stating:Among his works were:
- Galileo visited by Milton
- Dante, Virgil, and Farinata degli Uberti
- Episode during Plague of 1348 in Florence'
- Ruggiero opens the Tower of Hunger to discover corpses of Ugolino and his sons,.