Antonio Ciseri, Swiss-Italian painter (died 1891)

Antonio Ciseri

Swiss-Italian painter (1821–1891)

Antonio Ciseri was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects. Ciseri's paintings are Raphaelesque in their compositional outlines and their polished surfaces, but are nearly photographic in effect. Among his pupils were the painters Oreste Costa, Giuseppe Guzzardi, Alcide…