Academic studies of male nudes

Filippo Bigioli studied at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome and collaborated on the restoration of frescoes in the Vatican loggias. Bigioli is also known to have designed a series of 27 large paintings illustrating Dante's Divina Commedia, which were exhibited in Saint James's Hall, London in 1862. While the artist executed some of the paintings, for others he was assisted by number of Italian artists.