Baldassare Calamai (November 13, 1797 – July 11, 1851) was an Italian painter, active in a neoclassical style, painting mainly historical subjects.
Biography Calamai was born in Florence.
He was a pupil of Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Saltini, who likely knew the artist, bemoans his failure to achieve greatness, stating:
Among his works were: Galileo visited by Milton Dante, Virgil, and Farinata degli Uberti (1825) Episode during Plague of 1348 in Florence''' (1828, second version 1836)Second Version of Plague painting now at Galleria della Accademia.Ruggiero opens the Tower of Hunger to discover corpses of Ugolino and his sons, (from Dante's Inferno, 1838). In 1835 he painted illustrations of Dante's Divine Comedy''.Iconografia Dantesca: The Pictorial Representations to Dante's Divine Comedy; Ludwig Volkmann; H. Grevel and company 33 King Street, Covent Garden, W. C London; 1899; page 206.
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