Francesco Paglia (1636 – c. 1714) was an Italian painter of the late-
Baroque
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period, mainly active in
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
.
Biography
He was a pupil of
Guercino
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...
. He also wrote a description of paintings in Brescia, using both prose and poetry, titled ''il Giardino della Pittura'' (The Garden of Painting). A copy of the manuscript was in the hands of the
Avogadro family, which was known for their local patronage. Paglia also painted a ''St. Onofrio in the desert'' for the church of
San Barnaba.
He had two sons,
Antonio
Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...
(1680- 9 February 1747) and
Angelo
Angelo is an Italian masculine given name and surname meaning "angel", or "messenger".
People People with the given name
*Angelo Accattino (born 1966), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church
*Angelo Acciaioli (bishop) (1298–1357), Italian Rom ...
(born 1681), both painters. Antonio moved to Venice after the death of his father to study with
Sebastiano Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...
. Angelo also learned to sculpt in clay from the Brescian
Santo Calegari.
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1636 births
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian art historians
Painters from Brescia
Italian Baroque painters
Year of death unknown
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