Alessandro Marchesini
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Alessandro Marchesini
(b Verona, 30 April 1663; d Verona, 27 Jan 1738). Italian painter and agent. He is traditionally believed to have trained with Biagio Falcieri (1628-1703). At the age of 17 he moved to Bologna, where he entered the workshop of Carlo Cignani. His first commission after his return to Verona was for the fresco decoration of the vault of S Domenico (1687), with scenes glorifying the saint, set in a quadratura framework by Carlo Tedesco. The style is heavily Baroque. In 1690-91 Marchesini painted a Jonah for S Niccol?, Verona; this remains within a Veronese tradition, whereas his Assumption of the Virgin for S Biagio (1692; Breonio, SS Marziale e Giovanni) and his Purification of the Virgin (1699; Verona, Pal. Scaligero, Notai Chapel) contain references to the Bolognese art of the Carracci.
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Alessandro Marchesini
Alessandro Marchesini (1664–1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-Baroque and Rococo, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He first trained in Verona with Biagio Falcieri and then with Calza. He then moved to Bologna, to work in the studio of Carlo Cignani. He is described as gaining fame for his allegories with small figures. He painted in Venice for the church of San Silvestro and in Verona for the church of San Stefano. He is also remembered for recommending a young painter, Canaletto, to the Lucchese art collector Stefano Conti, stating that he was like Luca Carlevaris but with a sun shining.
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- Studi sopra la storia della pittura italiana dei secoli xiv e xv e della scuola pittorica. By Cesare Bernasconi. Published 1864. Page 372 (google books). Original from Oxford University
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). R.N. Wornum. ed. [Original Oxford Univ.; Googlebooks Digitized Jun 27, 2006 Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters, by a lady]. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London. pp. p96. Original Oxford Univ.; Googlebooks Digitized Jun 27, 2006.
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