Paolo Antonio Alboni (1671 – 5 October 1734) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period. He was born and trained in

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, where he became a landscape painter.

Biography

Paolo Alboni was born in

to an ancient and very comfortable family of Antonio and Angiola Alboni. He formed his painting preferences by studying the Nordic landscape artists, from whom he derived the particular dedication to landscapes. The irregular character led him to stay in

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and then in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, a city in which he enjoyed considerable success, and then return home, where he married and had three children, of whom one, Rosa, was his follower. In 1710 he went to

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, where he remained until 1722, but being deprived of the use of his right side by a stroke, he returned to Bologna; where he subsequently painted with his left hand. He died in 1730 and was buried in the church of San Procolo. In addition to his daughter, he had a single pupil, such a Gabriello Giuseppe Patarazzi, who became an Augustinian. His daughter, Luigia Maria Rosa Alboni, was also a landscape painter. She died in 1759.

References

* 1671 births 1734 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub