Antonio Rossi (1700–1753) 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 ...

or Rococo period, active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil first of the painter

Lorenzo Bergonzoni Lorenzo Bergonzoni (1646 – after 1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Bologna. He was first a pupil of Giovanni Battista Bolognini, but afterwards studied under Guercino in Cento. He is also called Lorenzo ...

, and then of Marcantonio Franceschini. He was a member of the Accademia Clementina.Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796
by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 744. He painted for the

Basilica of San Domenico The Basilica of San Domenico is one of the major churches in Bologna, Italy. The remains of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers ( Dominicans), are buried inside the exquisite shrine Arca di San Domenico, made by Nicola Pisano and hi ...

in Bologna.

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* 1700 births 1753 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Rococo painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub