Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period, active in

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Biography

He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino. He then trained in Bologna under

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. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna. He was described by

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as having a ‘’very strange brain’’ with his paintings equally strange. The Fondazione Cariverona has a Perini canvas depicting ''Tancredo al campo crociato piange la morte di Clorinda'' (Tancred in the Crusader camp mourns the death of Clorinda), a work once part of series of depictions of ''Gerusalemma Liberata'' owned by Count Ercole Giusti in his Veronese palace. The series included a work each by Perini, Carl Loth,

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, Antonio Fumiani,

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, and Simone Brentana. Also on display in the same hall were two mythological subjects by also by Loth, and five landscapes by Giovanni Ruggieri.Louis_Dorigny
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