Filippo Abbiati (1640–1715) was an Italian painter of the early-

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period, active in

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and

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, together with

Andrea Lanzani Andrea Lanzani (c.1645 – 30 May 1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Milan in 1641, Lanzani initially apprenticed in the workshop of Luigi Scaramuccia, where he met Andrea Pozzo, a marked influence on his e ...

and Stefano Maria Legnani, he was a prominent

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painters from the School of Lombardy. Born in

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, he was a pupil of the painter Antonio Busca.

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 sce ...

was one of his pupils along with

Pietro Maggi Pietro Maggi (Milan, circa 1680 - Milan, before 1738) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Biography He was influenced by Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (died 1702) but studied and worked with Filippo Abbiati. Together they painted fresc ...

and Giuseppe Rivola. Ticozzi claims he trained, along with Federigo Bianchi, with

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1608 or 1609 in Milan – 1661 or 1662 in Milan)Sant'Alessandro Martire in Milan. Abbiati also painted a ''St. John preaching in the Wilderness'' for a church in

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. Filippo Abbiati was an apprentice of

Carlo Francesco Nuvolone Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1608 or 1609 in Milan – 1661 or 1662 in Milan)Cerano Cerano (''Sciarön'' in lombard) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about southeast of Novara. Cerano borders the following municipalities: Abbiategrass ...

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and Procaccini. Later, he got acquainted with the Roman Baroque up to the first manifestations of the Rococo. Being in contact with the Venetian painting of

Federico Bencovich Federico Bencovich (; 1677 – 8 July 1753), also known as Federighetto or Ferighetto Dalmatino among others, was a Croatian-Italian late Baroque painter from Venetian Dalmatia. Although was among prominent painters of his era in North Italy, Ger ...

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 ...

he influenced his apprentices

and Giuseppe Rivola in this direction.

also belonged to his school. Abbiati developed his copious production especially in Milan and around it but the information on his life is scarce. In 1671 he produced a canvas, that was lost, for the Milanese church of Santa Maria del Carmine and another, also no longer existing, for the Scuola di San Giovanni in Murano, which suggests his presence in Venice, while one of his trips to Rome before 1674 was hypothesized to explain the influence of Roman painting in his painting of Blessed Tolomeo, preserved in the Milanese church of San Vittore al Corpo. For the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Saronno he painted the altarpiece of the Preaching of St. John the Baptist (1677), perhaps together with Luca Borromeo, and a David; in 1688 ''La caduta della manna (The Gathering of the Manna)'' was also painted there. In 1680, three canvases were commissioned for the church of San Sebastiano, in Milan. His masterpieces are considered the frescoes on the counter-façade, in the choir and in the dome of the Milanese church of Sant'Alessandro. He executed them from 1683 to 1696 in collaboration with Federico Bianchi. Though it is not easy to distinguish the work of one artist from the other, some claim that only ''The Triumph of the Holy Trinity'', in the dome, and ''The Scenes of the life of Saint Alexander'', in the choir, are of his own hand. Around the same period, he painted ''The Council of Ephesus'' for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine and 31 paintings with scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence for the Cathedral of Novara. In 1700 he received payments for his contribution to funeral ceremonies in honor of Emperor Charles II. Around that year he painted for the church of Sant'Antonio the scenes of ''The life of Sant'Andrea Avellino'', ''The Sant'Antonio Converts a Heretic'', ''The Saint Peter Martyr Unmasks a False Madonna'' and ''The Miracle of the Mule'', the latter two currently preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Milan. His activity in later years was not documented. Abbiati died in Milan.

Works

*''The Solemn Entrance of

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in Milan'' (1670–80), from the

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* ''Portrait of Filippo Pirogalli'' (around 1677),

, Ospedale Maggiore * ''Birth of Mary'' (around 1680), Santa Maria dei Miracoli Basilica,

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, Switzerland * ''Apparition of the Virgin'' (1683–85),

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, oil on canvas, 55 × 66 cm * ''Self-Portrait'',

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, Milan * ''History of St Andrea of Avellino'',

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, Milan * ''Apparition of Virgin to

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'', Church of

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* ''San Siro before the Pope'',

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* ''David, Moses'' at Sant'Agostino, Pavia * ''St John Preaching in the Wilderness'', a church in

His other works are at the Pinacoteca Carrara in

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and the

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in Milan.

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