Mariano Rossi (1731 - 1807)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Mariano was born to poor parents in Sciacca, Sicily.
• He trained first in Palermo, then in Naples, and finally in Rome, where he studied under Marco Benefial.
• He was paid 400 zecchini by the Cardinal Cardinal Bernis for a canvas depicting Joshua commanding Sun to stand still.
• He painted for the churches of Purgatorio and Santa Lucia in Sciacca, Sicily.
• In 1766, he was called to paint frescoes for the royal court in Turin. 
• He then returned to Rome, where he painted a fresco in the grand salon of the Villa Borghese. 

• Mariano joined the Academy of St Luke in 1776. 

• Moving to Campania, he painted a Marriage of Alexander the Great to Roxana.

• The Napoleonic invasion of Rome caused him to leave for Sicily.

• Mariano Rossi moved back to Rome in 1804.

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