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Tommaso Aldrovandini (21 December 1653 – 23 October 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He mainly painted perspective views and architectural subjects (

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

), in which the figures were painted by

Marcantonio Franceschini Marcantonio Franceschini (; 1648 – 24 December 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.''The picture collector's manual'' by James R. Hob ...

and

Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well a ...

. He decorated churches, palaces, and theaters in

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, Ferrara, and Genoa, and especially in his native Bologna. Among his pupils was

Giovanni Benedetto Paolazzi Giovanni Benedetto Paolazzi (1700–1788) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period, active in Bologna, mainly in ornamental and quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù ...

Biography

He was born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

on December 21, 1653, son of the painter Giuseppe. He was the main painter among his family and the one who left the greatest number of works. Introduced to the world of art by his uncle Mauro, he attended the academy of

Cesare Gennari Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His ''Saint Mary Magdalene'' is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento. His ''Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Nicholas of Bari'' is at the Pinacoteca ...

and then that of C. Cignani. After decorating two chapels of the portico of St. Luke, he went to

, where he painted the hall of the Public Palace with his uncle and Cignani. He then worked in

and

and again in Forlì and Bologna. Here he worked decorating the portico of San Bartolomeo as well as in various palaces, as in that of Marescalchi, where the figures were made by Felice Cignani, Ranuzzi, Zaniboni, Grassi, Fongarini. He worked a lot in

, where he, being still young, executed quadratures in the rooms of Palazzo del Giardino decorated by Carlo Cignani and

(1681), and he also decorated a chapel in S. Giovanni (1685). He then went to

, where he worked in the Scalzi church (1688) and in the Bagnasco house (1689) with

Giovanni Antonio Burrini Giovanni Antonio Burrini (25 April 1656 – 5 January 1727) was a Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style. After an apprenticeship with Domenico Maria Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Giovanni ...

. After that he moved to Ferrara, where he worked with Maurelio Scannavini in the Bevilacqua palace. In 1692 he was in Bologna to paint the main chapel of the church of the Madonna dei Poveri. The most important work he executed was in Genoa, where he lived, though with interruptions, almost twenty years. He decorated the rooms of the Great and the Little Council in the Public Palace (destroyed in 1777), the first in 1702 with Franceschini, the other in 1704 with the Genoese Domenico Parodi. During his stay in Genoa he also decorated other rooms in the

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(with Andrea Carlone), Villa Saluzzo ( with

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), Villa Gentile, Villa Lomellini, and Villa Durazzo Pallavicini. He worked in several churches as well. He then painted with Giacomo Boni, a pupil of M. A. Franceschini, two chapels of the church of the Benedictine monks of Parma, until he finally returned to Bologna in 1725. He died in Bologna on the 23rd of October 1736 and was buried in the church of S. Mamolo.

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