Federico Cervelli (1625 in

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– before 1700) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in

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at the age of about thirty.

Biography

He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Lucchese). His first documented and dated painting is a ''Sacrifice of Noah'' (1678) conserved at San Giorgio Maggiore in

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. A ''Massacre of the Innocents'' by Cervelli in

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in Venice, and a ''Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro'', coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956 His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by

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and

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. Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur

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References

*R. Palluchini, ''La pittura Veneziana del Seicento,'' Milan, 1981, pp. 297–298. 1625 births Painters from Milan 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters 17th-century deaths {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub