Andrea Miglionico (30 November 1662 - 1711) was an Italian painter 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 ...

period. He was born in

Miglionico Miglionico ( Lucano: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Matera, in Basilicata, southern Italy Southern Italy ( it, Sud Italia or ) also known as ''Meridione'' or ''Mezzogiorno'' (), is a macroregion of the Italian Republic consisti ...

in the

province of Matera The province of Matera ( it, Provincia di Matera; Materano: ) is a province in the Basilicata region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Matera. It has an area of and a total population of 201,133; the city Matera has a population of 61,204. T ...

of Basilicata, and a pupil of

Luca Giordano Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 3 January 1705) was an Italian late-Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence, and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain. Ear ...

. He painted a number of canvases in collaboration with the landscape artist

Filippo Giannetti Filippo Giannetti or Giannetto (1630 – 1702) was an Italian painter of Naples and Sicily. Biography He was born in Savoca, near Messina. He was known as ''Giordano de' paesisti'' ("the Giordano of landscape painters") for his ability to p ...

. He also painted a series of canvases for the church of San Michele a Sant'Andrea di Conza in Irpina, commissioned by the bishop of Conza, Gaetano Caracciolo. The depict the following subjects: * ''Apparition of the Archangel Michael to San Lorenzo Maiorano sul monte Gargano'' * ''Apparition of the Archangel Michael to Tobias'' * ''Liberation of St Peter from Jail'' * ''St John the Evangelist in Patmos'' * ''Annunciation to Zacharias'' * ''Birth of the Virgin'' He painted in 1695 the two ceiling canvases depicting ''St Peter of Alcantara'' and the ''Battle of Belgrade'' for the Chiesa della Santissima Trinità presso Baronissi in the province of Salerno. In his native city, the best, perhaps, a 'Pentecost’’' in the Santissima Nunziata. He painted an ''Apotheosis of Saint Teresa'' (1710) for the Confraternity della Gran Madre di Dio, and placed in the church of Santa Teresa dei Maschi in Bari. He died in Ginosa.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Volume 74 (2010), entry by Mario Epifani.

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1662 births 1711 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters People from Irsina Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub