Camillo Gabrielli (circa 1670 -1730) was an

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painter of the late

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period. He was a native of

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, was a scholar of

Ciro Ferri Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona. He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extensive fresc ...

. Lanzi states that he was the first who introduced the style of

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

among his countrymen. He painted some oil pictures at the

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, and for private collections; but he was more distinguished for his

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 ...

paintings, which were much esteemed. His principal work was the decorations of the great salon in the Palazzo Alliata in Forisportam and for the Palazzo del Consiglio dei Dodici in Pisa. He died in 1730. Among his pupils were Francesco and Giuseppe Melani.Biblioteca enciclopedica italiana
Volume 14, by Nicolo Bettoni; Milan (1831); page 135.

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