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Baldassare Verazzi (6 January 1819 – 18 January 1886) was an Italian painter.

Life

Verazzi was born in

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. He studied at the

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at Milan from 1833 to 1842, then under the Venetian Romantic painter

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(1791–1882) in 1851,F. Copiatti - V. Cirio, ''Baldassare & Serafino Verazzi, Pittori del lago Maggiore Due vite tra Verbano, Milano e America Latina'' Alberti Libraio - Magazzeno Storico Verbanese - La Compagnia de' Bindoni, 2006 and participated in several exhibitions in

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and

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. He took his inspiration from history (painting a fresco on ''The life of

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'') and religion (''The

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'', the 1851 ''The parable of the Samaritan'' and the 1854 ''

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presented by

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''). His masterpiece (now at the Museum of the Risorgimento in Milan) is considered to be ''Episodio delle Cinque Giornate (Combattimento a Palazzo Litta)'' - known in English as ''Episode from the Five Days (Fighting at Palazzo Litta)''. Heavily involved in the

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, he was hunted down by the

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authorities in 1848 and forced to live under severe proscriptions. He left for

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in 1856, where he taught (the Argentine painter

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was his student) and painted local personalities, scenes of everyday life and history paintings of political or military events. He also decorated the original

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.Storia degli Italiani nell' Argentina
by Giuseppe Parisi; Enrico Voghera, editor; Rome (1907); page 84. He returned to Italy and installed himself near

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, and the landscape of that area proved a new source of inspiration for paintings that he then produced with his son Serafino (1875–1945). He died in Lesa, aged 67.

References

Bibliography

* Tullio Manacorda, ''Los pintores del Museo Historico. Baltasar Verazzi'', in ”Revista Historica", tomo X, n. 28, 1922. * Ezio Brambilla, ''Baldassare Verazzi'', in ”Le Vie d`Italia e dell`America Latina", 1929. * Fabio Copiatti et Valerio Cirio, ''Baldassare & Serafino Verazzi, Pittori del lago Maggiore Due vite tra Verbano, Milano e America Latina'', Alberti Libraio - Magazzeno Storico Verbanese - La Compagnia de' Bindoni, 2006 * Valerio Cirio et Fabio Copiatti, ''Una visita alla casa del pittore Baldassare Verazzi, a Lesa...” (2007), in ”Antiquarium Medionovarese", II (2007), Arona 2007, pp. 429-442. * Fabio Copiatti et Valerio Cirio, ''L’opera di Baldassare Verazzi, pittore verbanese, nella chiesa di San Martino a Malnate'', in ”La Cava 2007" (XIV), Varese, 2007, pp. 7–19.

Sources

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Biography of Baldassare Verazzi on the ''Magazzeno storico Verbanese'' site
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