Alessandro Marchesini (30 April 1664 – 27 January 1738) was an Italian painter and art merchant of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

and

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

, active in Northern Italy and

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

. He first trained in

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

with

Biagio Falcieri Biagio Falcieri (1628–1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, although his provincial style has been described as a tired mannerism, active between Venice and Verona. Originally from the region of Trento. He studied with Pietro Liberi i ...

and then with Antonio Calza. He then moved to

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

, to work in the studio of

Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well ...

. He is described as gaining fame for his allegories with small figures. He painted in for the church of

San Silvestro, Venice San Silvestro is a church building in the sestiere of San Polo of Venice, northern Italy. The church is located in the business district of Rialto. Originally, in the 12th century, it was under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Grado. After re ...

; and for the church of

Santo Stefano, Verona Santo Stefano is a Paleo-Christian, Roman Catholic basilica church in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy. History A church at this site, built on an Isis dedicated Roman temple, was consecrated in 421, and for four centuries was the burial s ...

. He is also remembered for recommending a young painter,

Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of city views or ...

, to the Lucchese art collector Stefano Conti, stating that he was like

Luca Carlevaris Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (''vedute'') of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artis ...

''but with a sun shining''. Among his pupils is

Carlo Salis Carlo Salis (1680–1763) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona. He was initially a pupil of the painter Alessandro Marchesini, then went to work under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and later with Antonio Balestra in Venice ...

Sources

*''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 *

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Marchesini, Alessandro 1664 births 1738 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters 18th-century Italian businesspeople Italian Baroque painters Painters from Verona 18th-century Italian male artists