Carlo Donelli (Milan, 1661–1715) was an Italian painter, known as Vimercati.
Biography
Donelli was probably a pupil of
Ercole Procaccini
Ercole Procaccini il Giovane (''the Younger'') (c. 6 August 1605 – 14 November 1675 or 2 March 1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Born to a family of painters in Milan, he initially apprenticed with his father, painter Carlant ...
the Younger and his training included the study of
Daniele Crespi’s frescoes for the Carthusian monastery in Garegnano. Influenced by the painting of the Venetian Tenebrists, possibly through the work of
Filippo Abbiati
Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque period, active in Lombardy and Turin, together with Andrea Lanzani and Stefano Maria Legnani, he was a prominent mannerist painters from the School of Lombardy. Born in ...
, he worked at first in the provinces (Codogno and Varese) and then on various churches in
Milan. While few of Donelli’s works survive, significant evidence of his style is provided by his altarpiece of Saint Anne Offering Mary to the Eternal Father for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Rho.
References
* Domenico Sedini
Carlo Donelli online catalogu
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Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).
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17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
1661 births
1715 deaths
Painters from Milan
18th-century Italian male artists