Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in

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) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-

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and the older brother of the Baroque painter

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(1674-1730)

Biography

Domenico was initially apprenticed with in Venice

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, then, in the early 1690s, working in the studios of

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and then under Maratta's pupil

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. Among his pupils were Nicolo Malatto,

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(his brother); and son Domenico. Domenico Junior resided in Lisbon, and was a celebrated portrait painter in his day. Another pupil, briefly, was

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. He frescoed a hall in Palazzo Negroni.

References

* S. Soldani: ‘Profilo di Domenico Parodi’, Crit. A., lxxxvii (1967), pp. 60–70 * F. Franchini Guelfi: ‘Domenico Parodi’, La scultura a Genova e in Liguria dal seicento al novecento (Campomorone, 1988), ii, pp. 280–1 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters 1672 births 1742 deaths Painters from Genoa 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub