Simone Brentana (1656 – 9 June 1742
)) was an Italian painter of the

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 in

Verona Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...

. He was born in Venice to Domenico Brentana, but became orphaned by age nine. After a prolonged desultory education in various fields including music, he trained as a painter in Venice with

Pietro Negri Pietro Negri (1628, Venice - 31 May 1679, Venice) was an Italian painter in the Baroque art, Baroque style who belonged to the so-called "tenebrosi" (dark or gloomy ones). Biography He was likely born in Venice. Early sources assumed that he ...

, frequenting the

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, moving in 1685 to Verona, where most of his paintings are located. Among his pupils were

Antonio Baroni Antonio Baroni (1678 – 31 December 1746) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. He trained with Simone Brentana in Verona, and then in Bologna with Marcantonio Franceschini Marcantonio Franceschini (; 1648 – ...

, Michelangelo Spada,

Tommaso Dossi Tommaso Dossi (1678 – 18 July 1730) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. He trained with Giovanni Murari and then with Simone Brentana Simone Brentana (1656 – 9 June 1742Antonio Elenetti, Giovanni Battista Marcola, and Lodovico Buffetti.

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