Artists from Genoa were influential during the 17th century. Many painters emigrated to either Venice, Florence, or Rome. Prominent stimuli to the local artists were prolonged visits to the town of artists from Spain and countries north of Italy, including
Velázquez,
Van Dyck, and
Pierre Puget.
17th century
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Bernardo Strozzi (1581–1644)
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664)
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Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639–1709)
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Giovanni Battista Carlone (1653–1655)
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Alessandro Magnasco (1667–1749)
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Domenico Fiasella (1589–1669)
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Luca Cambiaso (1527–1585)
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Pierre Puget (1622–1694)
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Valerio Castello (1624–1659)
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Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari
Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari (1598–1669) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. A prolific easel painter who created many altarpieces, he was, together with Gioacchino Assereto and Orazio de Ferrari, one of the chie ...
(1598–1669)
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Orazio De Ferrari (1606–1657)
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Gregorio De Ferrari (c. 1647–1726)
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Lorenzo De Ferrari
Lorenzo De Ferrari (14 November 1680 – 28 July 1744) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Genoa.
Biography
Lorenzo was the son of the painter Gregorio De Ferrari and Margherita Piola, the daughte ...
(1680–1744)
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Valerio Castello (1625–1659)
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Bartolomeo Biscaino (1632–1657)
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Giulio Benso
Giulio Benso (30 October 1592 – 1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi.
Benso was born in Pieve di Teco. Initially under the patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria, he ...
(1592–1668)
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Domenico Piola (1627–1703)
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Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo
Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo (1584 – August 18, 1638) was an Italian painter active mainly in Genoa.
Life
Ansaldo was born in Voltri, now part of the ''comune'' of Genoa, the son of a merchant. He trained under Orazio Cambiasi and possibly collabo ...
(1584–1638)
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Gioacchino Assereto (1600–1649)
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Francesco Maria Schiaffino
Francesco Maria Schiaffino (1688 – 3 January 1763) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late- Baroque, mainly active in his native city of Genoa.
Born into a family of sculptors, including his older brother Bernardo Schiaffino. In ...
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Filippo Parodi
Filippo Parodi (1630 – 22 July 1702) was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, "Genoa's first and greatest native Baroque sculptor".
Biography
Born in Genoa into a family of sculptors, Parodi developed his facility with wood, then tr ...
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Giuseppe Badaracco
Giuseppe Badaracco (1588–1657), also called “Il Sordo” (the Deaf), was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa, in Liguria and in the island of Corsica.
Born in Genoa into well-to-do family, he first studied cla ...
(1588–1657)
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Giovanni Raffaello Badaracco
Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco (1648–1726) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Genoa, son and pupil of the painter Giuseppe Badaracco. After studying some time under his father he went to Rome, and entered the school ...
(1648–1726)
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Giovanni Stefano Verdura
Giovanni Stefano Verdura was a 17th-century Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Genoa and later in the Piedmont. He was a disciple of the Genoese painter Domenico Fiasella. He died of the plague
Plague or The Plague may refe ...
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Carlo Antonio Tavella
Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668–1738) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.
Biography
Tavella was born in Milan, the son of Domenico Tavella, a Genoese merchant, Domenico. He was initially the pupil of the painter ...
(1668–1738)
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Giuseppe Palmieri (1674–1740)
See also
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Genoese School
The Genoese School (Scuola genovese, in Italian) is a cultural and art movement developed and rooted, since the 1960s, in Genoa, Italy. It is mainly linked to the Italian '' "canzone d'autore"'' (art song).
History
Among the major representat ...
References
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{{Republic of Genoa
School of Genoa
Painters from Genoa