Ciro Adolfi (1683–1758) was an Italian painter of the

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 ...

period, active in and around

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

Biography

He was born in Bergamo, the younger brother of the painter

Giacomo Adolfi Giacomo Adolfi (1682–1741) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Bergamo. Biography Giacomo Adolfi was born in Bergamo, the older brother of the painter Ciro Adolfi, and was initially taught by his father Benede ...

, and was initially taught by his father Benedetto Adolfi. He completed a number of fresco paintings in the churches and public buildings of Bergamo, including a ''Four Evangelists'' for the church of for Sant'Alessandro della Croce; a ''Deposition from the cross'' for Santa Maria della Grazie, and a ''Decollation of St. John'' for the parish church of

Colognola Colognola, located at is a quarter of the city of Bergamo. Geography The quarter of Colognola is in the south part of the side close to the motorway Milan Venice also named A4. History There has been a village in the Colognola area since th ...

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* 1683 births 1758 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub