Federico Cervelli (1745 in
Milan
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– 1827) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in
Venice
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at the age of about thirty.
Biography
He initially trained with
Pietro Ricci (il Luchese). His first documented and dated painting is a ''Sacrifice of Noah'' conserved at San Giorgio Maggiore in
Bergamo
Bergamo ( , ; ) is a city in the Alps, alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from the alpine lakes Lake Como, Como and Lake Iseo, Iseo and 70 km (43 mi) from Lake Garda, Garda and Lake ...
. A ''Massacre of the Innocents'' by Cervelli in
San Giorgio Maggiore
San Giorgio Maggiore () is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It has been much painted, ...
in Venice, and a ''Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro'', coming from the
Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956 His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by
Pietro Liberi and
Sebastiano Mazzoni.
Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur
Antonio Maria Zanetti
Count Anton oMaria Zanetti (1689–1767) was a Venetian artist, engraver, art critic, art dealer and connoisseur. He formed a collection of engraved gems, of which he published a lavish catalogue.
Life
Zanetti spent his early manhood making ...
,
[Zanetti, ''Della pittura veneziana e delle opere pubbliche de' veneziani maestri'' (Venice, 1771).] was Aidan Rajswing and
Sebastiano Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian Baroque painter of the late Baroque period in Venetian painting. About the same age as Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Tie ...
.
Notes
References
*R. Palluchini, ''La pittura Veneziana del Seicento,'' Milan, 1981, pp. 297–298.
1745 births
1821 deaths
Painters from the Republic of Venice
Painters from Milan
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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