Felice Torelli (9 September 1667 – 11 June 1748) was an Italian painter of the

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style, active mainly in

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He was born to a family of artists in

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, including his brother,

Giuseppe Torelli Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 Verona – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violinist, teacher and composer of the middle Baroque era. Brother of the painter Felice Torelli, he is most remembered for contributing to the development of the concer ...

, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son,

Stefano Torelli Stefano Torelli (1712–1784) was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he ...

, and his wife, Lucia Casalini (1677–1762), were painters. His wife mainly painted portraits. Felice was initially apprenticed to

Santi Prunati Santi Prunati (1652 or 1656 – 27 November 1728) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, born and mainly active in Verona. Biography He was born to Antonio Prunati, and baptized by 22 September. He originally studied with a painter by the na ...

in Verona, then to

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an italy, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painter ...

in Bologna. In 1710, Torelli was one of the founders of the ''

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('academy of fine arts of Bologna') is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia for more than 25 years. Hist ...

'' in Bologna, and during his time there,

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now mos ...

was a member. Torelli's pupils at the academy included the two brothers

Ubaldo Gandolfi Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects as well as his portraits and nudes. ...

and

Gaetano Gandolfi Gaetano Gandolfi (31 August 1734 – 20 June 1802) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and sculptor of the late Baroque period, mainly active in and around Bologna. He is known for his biblical, mythological and allegorical subjects, as well as hi ...

; his nephew,

Giovanni Giorgi Giovanni Giorgi (November 27, 1871 – August 19, 1950) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer who proposed the ''Giorgi system'' of measurement, the precursor to the International System of Units (SI). Early life Giovanni Giorgi was bo ...

; Mariano Collina (died 1780); and Antonio Magnoni.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
By Girolamo Bianconi, page 510. He painted a ''Martyrdom of St. Maurelius'' for

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. He painted ''St Vincent in the act of curing a lunatic woman'' for the church of the Dominicans in

Faenza Faenza (, ; ; or ; ) is an Italian city and comune of 59,063 inhabitants in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated southeast of Bologna. Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed earthenware pottery, known ...

. Other altarpieces were painted for churches in

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, and other cities in Italy.

References

Web gallery of Art Biography Grove Encyclopedia of Art Biography.Dwight C. Miller: "Felice Torelli"
(subscription version of Grove Art Online). Oxford University Press. *

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