Giuseppe Romani (c. 1654 – 1718) was an
Italian painter
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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 ...
era.
There are very few information available about the life of this
artist
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born in
Como
Como (, ; lmo, Còmm, label=Comasco dialect, Comasco , or ; lat, Novum Comum; rm, Com; french: Côme) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy. It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como.
Its proximity to Lake Como and ...
, Italy, although many paintings of his still survive. It is not certain if Romani can be identified with the "Joseph Romani", an Italian artist active in Madrid, described by
Antonio Palomino
Acislo Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco (165513 April 1726) was a Spanish painter of the Baroque period, and a writer on art, author of ''El Museo pictórico y escala óptica'', which contains a large amount of important biographical mate ...
in his ''
''.
''An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects''
tr. (by U. Price) from the Musæum pictorium (English version, 1739), p.106.
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Paintings by Giuseppe Romani
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian Baroque painters
1654 births
1718 deaths
18th-century Italian male artists
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