Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (1643 or 1646 – 20 August 1724) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

He was born in

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, son of Domenico, a painter. He painted two landscapes depicting storms in Loreto; work 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 ...

, but also by Dutch landscape artists popular in Italy, such

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and Mulier. His works often included capricci, similar to those seen in works by

Marco Ricci Marco Ricci (6 June 1676 – 21 January 1730) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Early years He was born at Belluno and received his first instruction in art from his uncle, Sebastiano Ricci, likely in Milan in 1694–6.Giacometti, Mar ...

. Peruzzini travelled prior to 1687 to Venice, Bologna, Modena, Parma,

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and Turin. He stayed in

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from 1682 to 1686, where he worked in collaboration 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 Corton ...

and

Giovanni Antonio Burrini Giovanni Antonio Burrini (25 April 1656 – 5 January 1727) was a Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style. After an apprenticeship with Domenico Maria Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Giovan ...

. In this period, he contributed to ''Temptations of St Antony'' and ''Landscape with wood-cutter'' (1690s). In 1703, he moved to Tuscany, patronized by Ferdinand de' Medici, and he worked with

Alessandro Magnasco Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late- Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape s ...

, painting landscapes for the painter known for his small figures. Together they painted ''Landscape with frati penitenti di Stockholm'' or ''Landscape with St Francis in Ecstasy'' now in the

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. He followed Magnasco to Milan in 1712–13, and they continued collaborations until 1720–25.Museo D'Arco of Mantua
short biography.

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