Ancient World

Geremia Discanno

Geremia Discanno (sometimes spelled Di Scanno) (20 May 1839 – 14 January 1907) was an Italian genre and landscape painter, who collaborated with archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli, art historian Emil Presuhn, and Naples-based chromolithographer Victor Steeger, to record wall paintings in the Roman ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum that were being excavated at the time.

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• ▸Hoxne Hoard
• ▸George Austin McHenry House
• ▸Cadbury Castle, Somerset

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