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Antonio Ciseri (25 October 1821 – 8 March 1891) was an Italian painter of religious subjects.He was born in Ronco sopra Ascona Switzerland. He went to Florence in 1833 to study drawing with Ernesto Bonaiuti and from 1834 he was a pupil of Niccola and Pietro Benvenuti at the Accademia di Belle Arti; 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.
