Alessio de Marchis or ''il Marchis'' (

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, 1684–1752,

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) was an Italian painter of the early 18th century, active mainly in

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and

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, mainly as a

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

painter. Alessio was born in

, and was known to be active in 1710. He painted in the Palazzo Ruspoli and the Palazzo Albani in Rome. He was said to have been excellent at depictions of fires, and in attempting to paint one from nature, set up a damaging conflagration. For this, he apparently was sentenced to years as a galley slave, until he was pardoned under

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, for whom Alessio painted many canvases of perspective, landscape, and marinescapes. He was said to have been influenced by

Salvatore Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

and Claude Lorraine. His son was also a landscape artist.

Sources

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Two attributed works at Pinacoteca Fortunato Duranti

Paintings
at Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marchis, Alessio de 17th-century Neapolitan people 1684 births 1752 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Naples Italian landscape painters 18th-century Italian male artists