The Forlivese school of art was a group of

Italian Renaissance The Italian Renaissance ( it, Rinascimento ) was a period in Italian history covering the 15th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Europe and marked the trans ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

s and other artists. Most were born in

Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via E ...

or near it in the

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region of Italy. Some other artists went to Forlì to study. As a

Renaissance art Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occ ...

movement, it lasted from the 14th through the 16th centuries.

Artists

Forlivese artists include: *

Livio Agresti Livio Agresti (1508–1580), also called Ritius or Ricciutello, was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance or Mannerist period, active both in his native city of Forlì and in Rome, where he died. He was one of the members of the "Forlì paint ...

Ansuino da Forlì Ansuino da Forlì was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento period. Born and active in Forlì and Padua in the mid-15th century, he was a member of a Forlì painting school and influenced the great Melozzo da Forlì. He trained with Squarcion ...

* Antonio Belloni * Baldassarre Carrari il Giovane *

Baldassarre Carrari il Vecchio Baldassarre Carrari the Elder (il Vecchio) was an Italian painter who worked at Forlì about the year 1354. Biography He is supposed to be the author of a fragment of a series of paintings which once adorned the Santa Maria in Schiavonia church. ...

* Antonio Fanzaresi *

Giuseppe Maria Galleppini Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

* Guglielmo da Forlì *

Melozzo da Forlì Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438 – 8 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect. His fresco paintings are notable for the use of foreshortening. He was the most important member of the Forlì painting school. Biography M ...

Livio Modigliani Livio is both a masculine Italian given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Livio Abramo (1903–1993), Brazilian artist *Livio Agresti (1508–1580), Italian painter * Livio Bendaña Espinoza (born 1935), Nicarag ...

Giovanni Antonio Nessoli Giovanni may refer to: * Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname * Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data * '' Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend ...

* Francesco Menzocchi *

Guglielmo degli Organi Guglielmo da Forli, called Guglielmo degli Organi, was an Italian painter active in Forlì in the 14th century. Biography He was putatively either a pupil or follower of Giotto, and painted frescoes in the churches of San Domenico and the Franci ...

Marco Palmezzano Marco Palmezzano (1460–1539) was an Italian painter and architect, belonging to the Forlì painting school, who painted in a style recalling earlier Northern Renaissance models. He was mostly active near Forlì. Biography Palmezzano was ...

* Filippo Pasquali

References

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 ...

, ''Storia hi pittorica della Italia. Dal Risorgimento delle belle arti fin presso al fine del XVIII secolo'', Piatti, Firenze 1834. Giorgio Viroli, ricordando che il testo era stato scritto nel 1789, di questo autore sottolinea "la ricchezza di cognizioni che egli offre sulla scuola artistica forlivese" (in G. Viroli, ''Per un modello di cultura figurativa. Forlì, città e museo'', Istituto per i beni artistici culturali naturali della Regione Emilia-Romagna - Comune di Forlì, 1980 (?), p. 26.) *

Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle (22 January 1819 – 31 October 1897) was an Italian writer and art critic, best known as part of "Crowe and Cavalcaselle", for the many works in English on art history he co-authored with Joseph Archer Crowe. T ...

- J.A.Crowe, ''Storia della Pittura Italiana in Italia dal secolo II al secolo XVI'', successors of Le Monnier, Firenze, 1875–1909, 11 volumi. *E. Casadei, ''Forlì e dintorni'', Società Tipografica Forlivese, Forlì 1928. *''Mostra di Melozzo e del Quattrocento romagnolo'', a cura di C. Gnudi e L. Becherucci, Forlì, 1938 (rist. anastatica, Forlì, 1994). *AA.VV., ''Marco Palmezzano. Il Rinascimento nelle Romagne'', catalogo della mostra, Cinisello Balsamo - Forlì, 2005. F Painters of Emilia-Romagna Forlì Italian art movements Italian Renaissance Culture in Emilia-Romagna History of Emilia-Romagna . {{italy-art-stub