Felice Rubbiani (30 December 1677 – 18 October 1752) 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, mainly depicting still-life subjects.

Biography

He was born in

Modena Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...

and studied in Bologna under the still-life painter Domenico Bettini. He was called to Modena by the Duke Rinaldo I to help decorations for the wedding of his son Francesco. He was then given a position in the Guarda del Corpo to subsidize his ability to paint.de' pittori, scultori, incisori e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena
by Girolamo Tiraboschi, (1786) page 313.

References

1677 births 1752 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub