Filippo Bigioli (San Severino Marche, June 4, 1798 - 1878) was an Italian painter, active in a late neoclassical styleTreccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968).
Biography In 1861, he painted a series of over two dozen large canvases for a Galleria Dantesca about Dante and his works, most of which were exhibited initially in the Palazzo Altieri in Rome, but later when on tour, including to London.Building News and Architectural Review, Volume 8, page 67. He was helped in the planning by Romualdo Gentilucci, and coloring by Vincenzo Paliotti, Guerra, and professor Alfonso Chierici.Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael, by Richard Thayer Holbrook, Houghton Mifflin, (1911); page 226. He helped fresco the palace (destroyed) and villa of Count Torlonia in Rome. A collection of his works is on display in the Palazzo Comunale of San Severino.Comune of Sanseverino Marche, tourism, illustrious persons of Sanseverino.
His adopted daughter, Luisa Martignoni Bigioli, was also a painter.
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