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period. He was born and active in Bologna. He studied there as a pupil of

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. Sconzani is known mainly as a decorative painter and as an illuminator of texts, in which he painted floral and birds as decoration. He painted an allegory depicting the ''Marriage of Prince Karl of Bavaria and Archduchess Maria Amalia d’Austria'' (1722).This depiction alludes to a scene of the Opera ''Ormisda'', by

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, which was presented at the Malvezzi theater, during the princes' wedding festivities (Anziani consoli, Insignia, vol. XIII, c. 35

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sconzani, Leonardo 1695 births 1735 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Manuscript illuminators Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists