page_title: Michele Tedesco
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Michele Tedesco / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: A Pythagorean School Invaded by the Sybarites by Michele Tedesco
context_page_description: Michele Tedesco was an Italian painter.
context_section_description: Tedesco was born in Moliterno to James and Anna in 1834. He always showed an interest in art and his mother's brother Antonio Racioppi arranged for him to study painting at the School of Humanities and Fine Arts in Naples.
  In 1860 he moved to Florence and from there he toured the major cities of Europe making a living from his talents. Whilst in Bavaria he married a fellow painter and he and Julia Hoffman established a home in Naples. In 1877 he started to teach painting and drawing in Portici and led the department of drawing and sketching. In 1890 he was elected to a chair at the Design Institute of fine Arts in Naples where he enjoyed critical acclaim.
  Tedesco died in Naples in 1916. He has a large 1877 canvas showing A Pythagorean School Invaded by Sybarites  in the Guildhall Art Gallery in London.
  In 2012 there was a major retrospective of Tedesco's work and his contribution to Italian history.
caption: A Pythagorean School Invaded by the Sybarites
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