Antonio Ciseri - Il trasporto di Cristo al sepolcro

Antonio Ciseri (1821—1891) was a Swiss-Italian painter of religious subjects. He was in Ronco Sopra Ascona, Switzerland. He went to Florence in 1833 to study drawing with Ernesto Bonaiuti. Within a year, by 1834 he was a pupil of Niccola and Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence; he was later taught by Giuseppe Bezzuoli, who greatly influenced the early part of his career. In 1849, he began offering instruction to young painters and eventually ran a private art school.