Antonio Caimi

Antonio Caimi (1814-1878) was an Italian painter. He was born at Sondrio, and was chiefly engaged as a portrait painter, but also painted "The Beheading of St. John the Baptist" and "The Return from Babylon". He wrote a work on "The Arts of Design, and the Lombardian Artists from 1777 to 1862" published in Milan in 1862. He was secretary of the Academy at Milan from 1860 until his death.

References

*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 208| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=