'' Portrait of Luigi Moli'' Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. Tiberio Tinelli, Podobizna Karla Škréty (1635)

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. He trained with Giovanni Contarini, a pupil of the late

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. Tinelli then either worked under or emulated

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. He was well known for his portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice, whom he often painted in historical dress. His small pictures of historical and mythological subjects were also popular. Some of his pictures found their way into the collection of

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, king of

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, who knighted him with the order of Michael. He moved later in life in

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. Domestic afflictions drove him into a state of despondency, causing him to commit suicide.

Works

*''Portrait of Francesco Querini'' (c. 1615),

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, New Hampshire *'' Portrait of Luigi Moli'' (1637-1638),

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in Venice. *''Portrait of Ludovico Widmann'' (1637), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC *''Portrait di Emilia Papafava Borromeo'', Museo d'Arte Medioevale e Moderna,

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References

* 1586 births 1639 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Venice Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub