Santa Maria della Carità altare Francesco Paglia Brescia

Francesco Paglia (1636 – c. 1714) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period, mainly active in

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

Biography

He was a pupil of

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

. He also wrote a description of paintings in Brescia, using both prose and poetry, titled ''il Giardino della Pittura'' (The Garden of Painting). A copy of the manuscript was in the hands of the Avogadro family, which was known for their local patronage. Paglia also painted a ''St. Onofrio in the desert'' for the church of San Barnaba. He had two sons,

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(1680- 9 February 1747) and

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(born 1681), both painters. Antonio moved to Venice after the death of his father to study with

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...

. Angelo also learned to sculpt in clay from the Brescian Santo Calegari.

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1636 births 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian art historians Painters from Brescia Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown {{Italy-art-historian-stub