Giacinto Garofalini (1661–1723) 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, active mainly in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. He was initially a pupil of
Donato Creti
Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.
Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...
, then a pupil of the painter
Marcantonio Franceschini. Also called ''Garofolini'' by
Luigi Lanzi. He was a professor at the
Accademia Clementina
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...
, where he taught figure painting.
He married a niece of Franceschini's wife. Together with a fellow pupil,
Ferdinando Cairo
Ferdinando del Cairo (1666–1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Northern Italy.
Biography
He was born in Casale Monferrato, and learned the first rudiments of design from his father, an unknown artist. He afterwards beca ...
, Garofalini painted the vault of the church of
Sant'Antonio 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. ...
, as well as some side altarpieces. He painted two large canvases for the Church of the Scalzi Priests. With
Luca Antonio Bistega
Luca Antonio Bistega or Luca Bestega (21 October 1672 - 8 June 1732) was an Italian painter of quadratura, active mainly in Bologna, Italy.
Biography
He initially trained with a little-known painter, Barlamo Castellini, but soon moved to work wit ...
, a painter of
quadratura
Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...
, he decorated the chapel of San Tommaso del Mercato.
He also worked on the Sanctuary of
Santa Maria Lacrimosa (to which later was added the tag ''degli Alemanni'').
References
1661 births
1723 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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