What is Raffaele Casnedi?
{{Infobox artist | name = Raffaele Casnédi | image = | caption = | birth_name = Filippo Tobia Raffaele Casnédi | birth_date = {{birth date|1822|9|26|mf=y}} | birth_place = Runo, [[Dumenza]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1892|12|29|1822|9|22|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Milan]] | nationality = [[Italy|Italian]] | field = [[Painting]] and [[Scenic Design]] | movement = | works = }} '''Raffaele Casnédi''' (September 26, 1822 – December 29, 1892) was an [[Italy|Italian]] painter and scenic designer, active mainly in Milan. He was born to Pietro Casnedi and Angela Spaini. Despite his parent's objections, he attended the [[Accademia di Brera]] from 1840 to 1850. There he studied under Sogni and [[Luigi Sabatelli]]. In 1852, he won the Mylius prize for the fresco of ''The school of Leonardo'' painted in a lunette for the Accademia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=x81JAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP21 Engraving of Lunette frescoed by Casnedi, page 54]</ref> He interned in Rome, where he befriended the landscape artist Costa. He returned to Milan, and joined the Brera in 1856, and as professor of design in 1860. He is best known for his frescoes and religious canvases conserved at the churches (in [[Valmadrera]], Besana, Rho, San Pietro in [[Novara]], and Palombara). For example, in the parochial church of Santi Pietro e Paolo in [[Luino]], he painted, among other works, the four evangelists in the spandrels of the dome. In collaboration with [[Giuseppe Bertini]], he painted the curtain or sipario (1861–1863) at the [[Teatro alla Scala]] with ''The Fables Atellanae''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biografia di Casnedi |url=http://www.prolocodumenza.com/pages/casnedi.htm |access-date=2021-12-07 |archive-date=2016-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518112230/http://www.prolocodumenza.com/pages/casnedi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Among the pupils at the Brera of Casnédi (as well as Bertini and [[Francesco Hayez|Hayez]]) were the [[Scapigliatura]] artists: [[Pietro Bouvier]] and [