Stefano Celesti (active after 1635) was an Italian painter of the late-

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 ...

, active mainly in

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and territories on the mainland. He was born in

(or possibly

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), the son of the Baroque Venetian painter Andrea Celesti. He was active in

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, and near

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. In 1638 he painted a ''St Mark'' for the Cathedral of

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. Two years later, he executed the portrait of the priest Pasquale da Rovigno for the Franciscan Refectory in the monastery of Sant'Anna in the same town, now in

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. In 1659, he painted a ''Madonna del Carmelo'' for the parish church of Verbosca . He worked with

Pietro Bellotto Pietro Bellotti (1625–1700) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period. Life and Work Bellotti was born in Volciano di Salò in 1627 (1625 according to Orlandi), he gained fame as a painter of portraits and heads of characters. He was ...

in Koper, painting a ''Mystery of the Rosary'' and ''Last Supper''. For the church of Church of S. Antonio Abate in Sasso, in

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, he painted a ''Madonna of the Rosary'' in 1658.

Sources

* ''Studi romagnoli'', a cura della Società di studi romagnoli, 2003, pag. 20. * L. Anelli, P. Bellotti, A. Bonomi, I. Lechi e J. Rosengarten, ''Pietro Bellotti: 1625-1700'', 1996. * Italo Sennio, ''La Chiesa e il Convento di S. Anna in Capodistria'', Koper, 1910. * N. Pozza, ''Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte'', volume 30, 2006. * G. Panazza, ''Le manifestazioni artistiche della sponda bresciana del Garda'', in “Il Lago di Garda. Storia di una comunità lacuale, Salò, 1969, pag 252. * ''Arte cristiana'', a cura della Scuola beato angelico, Società amici dell'arte cristiana, volume 79, numeri 742-747, Milano 1991. * Pietro Stancovich, ''Biografia degli uomini distinti dell'Istria'', 1829.
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