Antonio Fedi (1771-1843) 

• Was an Italian  painter, draughtsman.
• He was born in Florence in 1771 to Antonio, an engraver, draughtsman and collector.
• Fedi was initiated by his father into the artistic profession and his training took place in the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

• He became an academic professor in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, which took place on 12 April 1802.

• His first documented work is the one created between 1813 and 1815 in Palazzo Strozzi di Mantova in Florence.

• He frescoed the antechamber on the ground floor with Stories of Psyche and the dining room on the main floor with episodes from the life of Numa Pompilius.

• Fedi's last commitment was in the decoration of the ancient Palazzo Salviati in Florence, which Prince Camillo Borghese had renovated by the architect G. Baccani over a period of six months, between 1821 and 1822.

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