Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian

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 ...

painter of the Bolognese School.

Biography

Alessandro Tiarini 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 ...

. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his family tried, unsuccessfully, to guide him towards becoming a cleric. He was the godson of painter

Lavinia Fontana Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614) was a Bologna, Bolognese Mannerism, Mannerist painter active in Bologna and Rome. She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious pai ...

and initially apprenticed in Bologna under her father

Prospero Fontana Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) was a Bolognese painter of late Renaissance and Mannerist art. He is perhaps best known for his frescoes and architectural detailing. The speed in which he completed paintings earned him commissions where he wo ...

, and subsequently with

Bartolomeo Cesi Bartolomeo Cesi (; 16 August 1556 – 11 July 1629) was an Italian painter and draftsman of the Bolognese School.Andrea Bayer. "Cesi, Bartolomeo" Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 7 November 2020 He made e ...

. He was not inducted into the

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Academy. Forced to flee from Bologna, due to what Malvasia and Amorini describe as a quarrel leading to the death of the other party, he moved to

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, where he painted

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

es, façade decorations, and altarpieces (1599–1606) including an ''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (Pitti Palace). In Florence, he mainly worked under

Domenico Passignano Domenico Passignano (1559 – 17 May 1638), born Domenico Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Counter-''Maniera'' (Counter-Mannerism) style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century. Biography ...

, but also

Bernardino Poccetti Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings. Biography Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrol ...

and

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. He was lured back to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, by

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

. His ''Grieving over a dead Jesus'' is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Bologna. He painted a series of frescoes for the Brami Chapel in the sanctuary, as well as other works, for the

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. He also painted in

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(1623–24). In 1628, where he painted the ''Story of Gerusalemme Liberata'' for the Farnese Palazzo del Giardino in

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. He also painted the ''Raising of the Cross'' for the ''Oratorio della Buona Morte'' in Reggio, a work now displayed in the

Galleria Estense The Galleria Estense is an art gallery in the heart of Modena, centred around the collection of the d’Este family: rulers of Modena, Ferrara and Reggio from 1289 to 1796. Located on the top floor of the ''Palazzo dei Musei'', on the St. Augusti ...

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and ''Judith and Holofernes'' for the church of

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. He painted a ''Virgin, Mary Magdalene, and St John, weeping over the instruments of the Passion'' for church of S. Benedetto; ''St. Catherine kneeling before a Crucifix'' for

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; a ''Pietà'' for Sant'Antonio; and ''St Dominic resurrecting a child'' for the church of San Domenico. Other works in

include a ''Martyrdom of

St. Barbara Saint Barbara ( grc, Ἁγία Βαρβάρα; cop, Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲃⲁⲣⲃⲁⲣⲁ; ; ), known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in t ...

'' for the

San Petronio Basilica The Basilica of San Petronio is a minor basilica and church of the Archdiocese of Bologna located in Bologna, Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. It dominates Piazza Maggiore. The basilica is dedicated to the patron saint of the city, Saint Petronius ...

, a ''Nativity'' for Santissimo Salvatore, and a ''Flight to Egypt'' for San Vitale. Tiarini died in

. His closest pupils were Francesco Carbone and Luca Barbieri.

Gallery

File:Alessandro Tiarini Natividad Uffizi.jpg, ''Nativity'' ( Ufizzi, Florence) File:Tiarini Sagrada Familia Hermitage.jpg, ''Holy Family'' ( Hermitage, St Petersburg) File:Tiarini Santa Dorotea.JPG, '' St Dorotea'' File:Tiarini Llanto de la Virgen San Benedetto Bolonia.jpg, ''Pieta'' (San Benedetto, Bologna) File:Tiarini Coronación de la Virgen det Basilica della Ghiara Reggio Emilia.jpg, ''Coronation of Virgin''
(

, Reggio Emilia) File:Le Repentir de Saint Joseph.JPG, ''Repentance of St Joseph'' (

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...

, Paris) File:Tiarini Incendio de Troya.jpg, ''Sack of Troy'' ( Galleria Nazionale, Rome) File:Tiarini Tres monjes contemplando un crucifijo Galleria di Palazzo Rosso, Genova.jpg, ''Three Monks contemplate Crucifix'' (

Palazzo Rosso The Palazzo Brignole Sale or Palazzo Rosso is a house museum located in Via Garibaldi, in the historical center of Genoa, in Northwestern Italy. The palace is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Pa ...

, Genoa) File:Tiarini Aquiles y las hijas de Licomedes.jpg, ''Achilles and the daughters of Licomedes'' (Galleria Nazionale, Rome)

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