
Antonio Gandini (1565 – 17 July 1630) was an
Italian
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painter of the late-
Renaissance
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period. He was a pupil of the painter
Paolo Veronese
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. In
Brescia
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, his pupils were
Ottavio Amigoni
Ottavio Amigoni (16 October 1606 – 28 October 1661) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Brescia. He was trained by Antonio Gandini. Among his masterpieces is a large fresco about the life of Sant'Alberto (c. 1640) in the ...
,
Francesco Barbieri (''il Legnano''), and
Ambrogio Besozzi
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Life
He was born in Milan in 1648 where his first training was with Gioseffo Danedi, ''il Montalto''. He assisted Ciro Ferri in Rome wit ...
. He worked alongside
Giacomo Barucco. Gandini's son, Bernardino (died 1651), was also a painter.
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1565 births
1630 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Painters from Brescia
Italian Renaissance painters
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