Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
– 1762 in Milan) was an Italian painter, active mainly in
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...
and other areas of
Lombardy
Lombardy ( it, Lombardia, Lombard language, Lombard: ''Lombardia'' or ''Lumbardia' '') is an administrative regions of Italy, region of Italy that covers ; it is located in the northern-central part of the country and has a population of about 10 ...
, who painted in a late-
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 ...
and
Rococo
Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...
style.
Biography
Born in Lombardy, he first trained with
Federigo Panza
Federico or Federigo Panza (Milan, 1633 - 1703) was an Italian painter.
Biography
He trained with Carlo Francesco Panfilo in Milan, then traveled to Venice. He painted the ceiling and two large lateral altarpieces for the altar of St Joseph in the ...
Francesco Solimena
Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.
Biography
Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of ...
. His first works in Milan date from 1716. In the church of San Pietro in Verzolo in
Pavia
Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...
, above the altar, there is a canvas depicting the Virgin and Child with Saint Bernard, dated 1713, and in the church of
San Giovanni Domnarum
The church of San Giovanni Domnarum is one of the oldest in Pavia. In the crypt, which was rediscovered after centuries in 1914, remains of frescoes are visible.
History
The church was founded (over the remains of a Roman bath building) around ...
the altarpiece with Saint Andrew. His brother was a Prefect of the
Accademia Ambrosiana
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, also housing the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, the Ambrosian art gallery. Named after Ambrose, the patron saint of Milan, it was founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agent ...
and thus member of the Academy of Design. He painted frescos for the Palazzo Modigliani in Lodi, the Palazzo Brentano of Corbetta, where other artists such as
Mattia Bortoloni
Mattia Bortoloni (31 March 1696 – 9 June 1750) was an important painter of the early Italian Rococo period. He began his career as a student of Antonio Balestra of Verona and was active throughout northern Italy.
Biography
For many years th ...
,
Giovanni Angelo Borroni
Giovanni Angelo Borroni (1684–1772) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early- Neoclassic periods, active mainly in Milan and Cremona.
Biography
He was born in Cremona and died in Milan. He was the pupil of the painter Angelo Massar ...
,
Giovanni Antonio Cucchi
Giovanni Antonio Cucchi ( Campiglia Cervo, active 1750) was an Italian painter.Ferdinando Porta, were working. He helped fresco, along with Cucchi, the ceiling for the Church of San Francesco of Assisi in Brescia. He also painted the altarpiece for the main altar with the ''Virgin and child with St Zeno, Rusticiano, and Vincenzo de Paoli'' for the church of San Zeno al Foro of Brescia.
His masterwork is the decoration of the chapel of St Stephen of the
Duomo di Monza
The Duomo of Monza (), often known in English as Monza Cathedral, is the main religious building of Monza, Italy. Unlike most duomos, it is not in fact a cathedral, as Monza has always been part of the Diocese of Milan, but is in the charge of an ...
, where he painted a ''Burial of St Stephen'' in 1723. Among his pupils were
Francesco Londonio
Francesco Londonio (Milan, 1723 – Milan, 1783)* was an Italian painter, engraver, and scenographer, active mainly in Milan in a late-Baroque or Rococo style.
Londonio trained as a painter under Ferdinando Porta and Giovanni Battista Sassi ...