Antonio Barbalonga or Barbalunga (1600 – 2 November 1649), also called Antonio Alberti, was an Italian painter of the

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period. He was a member of the noble family of the Alberti, born at

Messina Messina ( , ; ; ; ) is a harbour city and the capital city, capital of the Italian Metropolitan City of Messina. It is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, and the 13th largest city in Italy, with a population of 216,918 inhabitants ...

, and was there instructed in painting by Simone Comandé. He went to

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, where he became a pupil of

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoe ...

, whose style he imitated with great skill. Barbalonga executed a great number of paintings for churches, his chief work being the ''Conversion of St. Paul'' for the convent church of St. Anna at

. He painted in Rome for both the Church of the Theatines ( San Silvestro al Quirinale) for the church of

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, and for the church of

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. In Messina, he painted a ''St. Gregory'' for the church of San Gregorio, and an ''Assumption'' for the S. Michèle in Messina. Other works exist in

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, and

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. He died at Messina.

Domenico Maroli Domenico Maroli (1612 – May 23, 1676) was an Italian Baroque painter, active in Sicily and Venice. Biography He trained in his native Messina, Sicily, beginning at the age of 22 years under Antonio Barbalonga. In 1642, he traveled to Venice. H ...

was one of his pupils.

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* * 1600 births 1649 deaths Painters from Messina 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub