Baldassare Bianchi (1612 in
Bologna
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– 1679) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period.
Biography
He was first a pupil of
Giovanni Paderna, but after Paderna's death, he trained with
Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent
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 ...
painter from
Bologna
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. Bianchi married Mitelli's daughter. Bianchi became a colleague of
Giovanni Giacomo Monti, another Mitelli pupil. This partnership also met with success particularly at
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and '' comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, it was named as the Eur ...
, where they both received regular salaries from the Ducal government. Their figure-painter was
Giovanni Battista Caccioli of
Budrio, pupil to
Domenico Maria Canuti, and a good disciple of
Carlo Cignani
Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well a ...
.
With Mitelli, he painted
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 ...
at
Ducal palace of Sassuolo. He was also long employed by the dukes of
Modena. He also decorated the theatres of Mantua and Modena. He died at Modena. His daughter,
Lucrezia Bianchi, was also a painter.
Enrico Haffner
Enrico Haffner (August 1640 – 1702) was an Italian painter of quadratura during the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna.
Biography
Enrico was born to a Swiss father, who was a mercenary Swiss guard for the Papacy, stationed in Bologna; En ...
was one of his pupils.
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1612 births
1679 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
Quadratura painters
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