Vincenzo Angelo Orelli (1751-1813) was a Swiss-

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painter, mainly of sacred subjects, active in a late baroque style. VAOrelli02

He was born in

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in the

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, but active also in

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and Bergamo. He is the son of the painter Giuseppe Antonio Orelli. He painted the dome of the church of

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. He painted an altarpiece now in the church of San Lorenzo Martire, Zogno. He also had the name of ''Francesco Saverio Angelico Orelli''. He trained in Milan and travelled in 1773–1775 to Rome. He was a friend of Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini.Cassissiaco website
entry on the painter.

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