Morte di San Benedetto di Giuseppe Melani

Giuseppe Melani or Milani (13 August 1673 - 7 November 1747) was an Italian painter of the 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 ...

period, active mainly in

Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

Biography

His father, Pietro Milani, was a painter. He initially apprenticed with Camillo Gabrielli, a pupil of

Ciro Ferri Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona. He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extensive fresc ...

. For the

Cathedral, he painted a ''Death of San Ranieri''. He also painted figures for architectural frescoes, such as the vault of San Matteo (c. 1720) in Pisa, along with his brother Francesco Melani (also an architect, April 7, 1675 -August 21, 1742). Among the pupils of Melani were Tommaso Tommasi, Giuseppe Bracci, Jacopo Donati, Bartolommeo Santini, and Ranieri Gabbrielli.Fabroni, page 380.

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1673 births 1747 deaths People from Pisa 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub