Lorenzo Garbieri (1580 – 5 April 1654) was an Italian painter of the early-

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

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 was one of the painters in the studio of

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

and is sometimes called ''il nipote dei Carracci''. He was said to be one of the most successful imitators of Ludovico, to whose style he added the character of Caravaggio. He painted the ''Plague of Milan'' in the chapel of San Carlo at the church of the

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. He painted ''St Paul resuscitating a youth'' for the church of the

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Fano Fano is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy. It is a beach resort southeast of Pesaro, located where the ''Via Flaminia'' reaches the Adriatic Sea. It is the third city in the region by popula ...

. He painted the ''Martyrdom of St Felicita and her seven sons'' for San Maurizio in

Mantua Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard language, Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and ''comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the Province of Mantua, province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture ...

. He painted five canvases (1613) for the chapel of the Annunciation in the church of

San Bartolomeo, Modena San Bartolomeo is a Baroque church in Modena. History The present church was built for the Jesuit order and replaced a parish church at the site. The design by a Jesuit priest Giorgio Soldati of Lugano, by the Cardinal Alessandro d'Este. The c ...

, including ''Birth of the Virgin'', ''Annunciation''. He had also paintings made for Milan and Reggio-Emilia. One of his painting his located at the Dinan's Museum. Rejecting an offer to become court painter at Mantua, he returned to Bologna to take a bride with a rich dowry, after which his career declined. His son and pupil,

Carlo Garbieri Carlo Garbieri was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. He is the son and scholar of Lorenzo Garbieri, painted historical subjects in the style of his father. In the church of San Giovanni in Monte, at Bologna, is a picture by him of th ...

, was a history painter.

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* * 1580 births 1654 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub