Andrea Monticelli (1640 - 1716) was an Italian painter of the

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 also known as the ''Pittore da San Damiano'' for living and having his studio next to this church in Bologna.

Biography

He was born in

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 ...

and learned to paint

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

from Agostino Metelli and Matteo Borbone. He gained fame for painting still life and landscapes. He traveled through France, Savoy, and Florence. His brother Giacomo and son Teodoro were also painters. Giacomo Antonio Mannini was one of his pupils.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 69 (2007), entry on Giacomo Antonio Mannini, by Simona Dolari.

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1640 births 1716 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub