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Girolamo Donnini (18 April 1681 – 1743) was an Italian painter of the

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period, born in the town of

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. He was a pupil of the painters

Francesco Stringa Francesco Stringa (1578–1615) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque era, active mainly near his native city of Modena. He apprenticed initially, in 1595, in the Roman studio of Federico Zuccari, but soon came under the influence of the a ...

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, and then of

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bolo ...

in Bologna, then traveled to

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to work with

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Biography

He painted an ''Annunciation'' for the high altar in the church of the Annunziata delle Orfanelle in Turin, a ''St Joseph instructed by the angel'' for church of the Church of Corpus Domini in Bologna, and also a painting for the church of the Madonna di Galliera also in Bologna. In

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, he painted a ''Visitation'' for the church of the Salesians. Another painting on the same topic is found in the church of St. Sebastian in

Correggio Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also , , ), was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sens ...

. He painted a ''St Anthony of Padua'' for the church of San Francesco in

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. He also painted in the church of the Una dell'Ospedale Maggiore of

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

. His pupils include Francesco Bosi (Gobbo di Sinibaldo), Benedetto dal Buono (1711-1775), and Carlo Mazza.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
by Girolamo Bianconi; Bologna; 1820; page 515.

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