The Quiet Life of a Roman Painter Giuseppe Mazzolini lived through a century of change, moving from the provincial air of Camerino to the crowded, ancient streets of Rome. Born in 1806, he spent much of his life working in a studio situated near the Palazzo Montecitorio. It was a place where the shadows of the past were always present. He was a man of the brush and the pigment, finding his way through the rigorous traditions of Italia…