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Following is a list of Italian painters (in alphabetical order) who are notable for their art.
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*Niccolò dell'Abbate (1509/12–1571)
* Giuseppe Abbati (1836–1868)
*Angiolo Achini (1850–1930)
*Pietro Adami (c. 1730)
*Livio Agresti (1508 ...
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and Baroque style.
Life
He was born in Turin. He first trained in the Piedmont, under a painter by the name of Spirito, then was the main pupil of Pietro dal Po in Rome.
Filippo Titi, Titi gave some details of his activity in Rome and he mentioned the following works: the ''Annunciation'', the ''Crucifixion'' and the ''St. Michael who Defeats the Rebel Angels'' in
San Bonaventura al Palatino; the frescoed ''Fortress'' in a vault of the left aisle of
San Carlo al Corso; the two paintings depicting ''Daniel in the Lions' Den'' and the ''Resurrection of Lazarus'', the frescoes with ''Eternal Father in Glory'' and the ''Assumption'' in the choir of
Santa Maria del Suffragio (dating to shortly after 1662). Some other work performed for private individuals and today no longer traceable were mentioned in the Lives of
Pascoli.
In the paintings mentioned above he showed a marked influence of
Lanfranco's painting, although Benaschi could not have studied under the master, since Lanfranco died in 1647. The master's influence persisted and was enriched with new ideas during his stay in Naples, which began around 1664, the year in which he decorated, with a ''Life of San Nicola'', the small, no longer extant, church of St. Nicola alla Dogana.
As did many other aspiring artists, Benaschi drew inspiration from the
Carracci frescoes from the Farnese Gallery, from the statues in the
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at the Vatican Palace, paintings from
San Carlo de' Catinari and the works of
Lanfranco from the church of
Sant Andrea della Valle. Among his patrons were Giovanni Battista Cesalassi and the Jurist Alberetti.
[L. Pascoli, page 226.] In
Naples
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, he painted several ceilings and frescoes, for example at the
Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico, and the cupula of
Santi Apostoli. He completed an etching of a ''Holy Family'', after
Giovanni Domenico Cerrini
Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609–1681), also called ''Gian Domenico Cerrini'' or ''il Cavalier Perugino'', was a painter of the Baroque period, born in Perugia and active mainly in Rome and influenced in large part by painters of the Bolognese ...
, who was his intimate friend.
Relative to Lanfranco's style, Benaschi lightened the tints and attenuated the graphic prominence of the contours of the figures in order to achieve greater chromatic fusion and a more rough pictorialism. This style manifested in the frescoes of the chapel of
Santa Maria La Nova
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(''Death of Saint Anne'', ''St Paul Preaching'', ''St Louis of Toulouse Shows the Bull of Indulgences to the People''), in the paintings of the chapel of St Michael in the church of the
Santi Apostoli, then in the fresco executed in the dome of this same church (1680, with the collaboration of
Orazio Frezza
Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Naples
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), and then in the Saints on the front arches of the chapel of the church of the
Gerolamini (1681).
Being ill he retired to live in the convent of
Santa Maria delle Grazie in Caponapoli where he decorated the church with a vast cycle of frescoes executed with the help of
Orazio Frezza
Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest cit ...
and
Giuseppe Castellano
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and depicting episodes from the ''Life of Christ and Virgin''. During a hospitalization in that monastery, he died on the 28th of September 1688.
He had a daughter, Angela, born in Turin in 1666 and died in Rome in 1746, also a painter who was appreciated by her contemporaries - and especially by Pascoli - as a portraitist: at the moment, however, no work of hers is known.
Among his pupils was
Orazio Frezza
Orazio Frezza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and active in Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest cit ...
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1636 births
1688 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Fresco painters
Italian Baroque painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Turin
