Ludovico Mattioli (1662-1747) was an Italian painter and engraver.

Biography

He was born in

Crevalcore Crevalcore ( Western Bolognese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, central Italy, near Bologna. On January 7, 2005 a train crash in Crevalcore killed 17 people. On May 20, 2012 an earthquake caused s ...

, but mainly active 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 known for his depictions of landscapes, both in engravings and frescoes. He also painted a few oil canvases. He was a friend of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and engraved some of Crespi's works. Mattioli was a member of

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
by Girolamo Bianconi, page 741.

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1662 births 1747 deaths People from Crevalcore 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian engravers 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna Italian landscape painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-engraver-stub