Camillo Gabrielli (circa 1670 -1730) was an
Italian
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painter of the late
Baroque period.
He was a native of
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the ...
, was a scholar of
Ciro Ferri
Ciro Ferri (1634 – 13 September 1689) was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona.
He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extensive fres ...
.
Lanzi states that he was the first who introduced the style of
Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...
among his countrymen. He painted some oil pictures at the
Carmelites
, image =
, caption = Coat of arms of the Carmelites
, abbreviation = OCarm
, formation = Late 12th century
, founder = Early hermits of Mount Carmel
, founding_location = Mount Ca ...
, and for private collections; but he was more distinguished for his
fresco paintings, which were much esteemed. His principal work was the decorations of the great salon in the Palazzo Alliata in Forisportam and for the Palazzo del Consiglio dei Dodici in Pisa. He died in 1730. Among his pupils were Francesco and
Giuseppe Melani.
Biblioteca enciclopedica italiana
Volume 14, by Nicolo Bettoni; Milan (1831); page 135.
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1670 births
1730 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
People from Pisa
Painters from Tuscany
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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