Antonio Dardani (1677–1735) was an Italian painter of the

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period, mainly in his native 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 ...

. In around 1720, he painted the Theater of Reggio along with

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. He was described as a versatile painter, excellent in all manner of painting. He was born in Bologna in 1677 and then apprenticed with Angelo Michele Toni, from there he went to learn with

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. When the latter died, he worked with Domenico Maria Viani. Dardani went to Parma, and copied a number of paintings of Correggio. Returning to Bologna, he painted a ''Virgin and Saints'' altarpiece for an altar in the church of Santa Maria del Pianto, which was placed in the Castle San Pietro, and replaced by an altarpiece dedicated to ''Saints Barbara and Donino''. For Count Zani he painted some rooms in his country home, then in 1707 went to Macerata with

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, for the service of Bonacursi, and afterwards in Rome for pleasure. In this church of St. Catterina of Strada Maggiore, he left a canvas depicting ''Saint Giovanni Gualberti trampling the devil'', and for the church of Saint Benedict, some Angels, holding the insignias of saints. For the Dominican fathers, he depicted ''St Vincent Ferrer resuscitates a dead child''. Dardani painted for church of the Madonna del Carmine in the forte Urbano. He painted many transient decorations for funeral exequies, as well as scenes for operas and theater, both in Bologna and abroad. He served as the 14th Prince of the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. He developed a severe headache, later a fever and died two days later on September 29, 1735. His eldest son, only 18 when he died, became a painter.Storia Dell'Accademia Clementina Di Bologna Aggregata
l, Volume 1, by Giampietro Zanotti, Bologna (1739), pages 417-419.

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* 1677 births 1735 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Italian scenic designers 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub