Giovanni Francesco Braccioli (1697 – 16 July 1762)
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, mainly active in
Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
.
Born in Ferrara, he first trained with
Giacomo Parolini
Giacomo Parolini (May 1, 1663 – 1733) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara.
He initially traveled with Giovanni Francesco Viterbi to Turin to study law, but then went to study painting in Turin with Peruzzi ...
, and then with
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now mo ...
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 painted mainly religious altarpieces in Ferrara. On his return to Ferrara he painted for churches and convents. For the
Oratory of the Theatines, he painted an ''Annunciation'' and in the church of St Catherine there are two pictures, one ''Flagellation'' and the other ''Christ crowned with Thorns''. He died at Ferrara. Laderchi stated that his melancholy diverged into madness.
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1697 births
1762 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Ferrara
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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