Domenico Olivieri or Olivero (1679 in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

– 1755 in Turin) was an

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painter, who painted

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scenes influenced by the Flemish

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painters.

Biography

He particularly excelled in painting droll scenes, fairs, and merry-makings. In the gallery of the court of Turin were two of his best pictures, in one of which he has represented a fair, with an immense assemblage of figures, of quack-doctors, and groups of peasants, sporting or quarrelling. He also painted ''The Miracle of the Sacrament'' for the sacristy of the church of Corpus Domini, Turin.

Luigi Lanzi Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Biography Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as ...

said of Olivieri that he was ''born to amuse others with personal ridicule, with witty sayings, with facetious paintings. They are very famous in the collections of the Piedmont with his witty caricatures'' following the style of

Pieter van Laer Pieter Bodding van Laer (christened 14 December 1599, Haarlem – 1641 or later) was a Dutch painter and printmaker. He was active in Rome for over a decade and was known for genre scenes, animal paintings and landscapes placed in the environs ...

and other talented Flemish painters.Storia pittorica dell'Italia dal risorgimento delle belle arti
by Luigi Antonio Lanzi, page 58. Boni says that he had a pupil, Giovanni Michele Graneri, who painted in the same style.

References

Attribution: * 1679 births 1755 deaths Painters from Turin 18th-century Italian painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian genre painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub