Fra’ Galgario (4 March 1655 – December 1743), born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called ''Fra’ Vittore del Galgario'', was an Italian painter, mainly active in

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as a portraitist during the

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or late-

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period.

Biography

He was born in Bergamo to an artist father, Domenico Ghislandi. Initially, he entered the studio of Giacomo Cotta, then Bartolomeo Bianchi, and finally the studio of

Sebastiano Bombelli Sebastiano Bombelli (October 1635; 4 May 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period. Biography He was born in Udine on 14 or 15 October 1635 (baptized on the 15th), educated and trained under the guidance ...

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in the 1690s. He also reported training with the German portrait artist Salomon Adler in

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. In 1702, he entered the religious life in the Order of the Minims of the Monastery of Galgario, in Bergamo. He assumed the name of the saint for whom the monastery is named. He was elected a member of the Milanese

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in 1717. He is said to blend the attention to colourism and glamour that captivates Renaissance-Baroque portraiture of Venice, with the realism of Milanese art such as that of Moroni. Among his pupils were Paolo Bonomino, Cesare Femi, and Pietro Gualdi (18th century painter).The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Article: ''Fra Vittore Ghislandi'', by Selwyn Brinton, Volume 21, page 350-352
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Works

* ''Giovane con bicchiere di vino e natura morta con pane e cipolla'' * ''Giovane con turbante'' * ''Ragazzo col cappello piumato'' (L’Allegrezza)

Portraits

* Accademia Carrara, Bergamo **''Portrait of Francesco Maria Bruntino'' **''Portrait of Advocate Giacomo Battamni de'Bazni'' **''Portrait of G. Secco Suardo'' **''Portrait of Count Galeatius Secco Suardo'' (1681-1733) **''Portrait of the Gentleman of Finardi's House'' (1710) **''Gentlewoman'' (around 1710) *Luigi Koelliker collection: **''Portrait of Gian Domenico Tassi'' (between 1710–15) *''Portrait of Clara Benaglio Finardi'' (1710), private collection
''Giovanni Secco Suardo and Servant''
(1711) Giovanni Secco Suardo

*''Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti'' (1720), Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti *''Portrait of a Young Girl'', National Museum of Fine Arts, Algiers *''Portrait of Count Andra Asperti With His Son'' *''Portrait of Count Bartolomeo Secco Suardo in Arms'' *''Portrait of Count Filippo Marenzi'' *''Portrait of Count Gerolamo Secco Suardo'' *''Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti'' *''Portrait of Dottor Bernardi'' *''Portrait of Marquess Giuseppe Maria Rota and Captain Antonio Brinzago da Lodi'' *''Portrait of Marshal Matthias von der Schulenburg'' *''Portrait of Sculptor

Andrea Fantoni Andrea Fantoni (1659–1734) was an Italian sculptor and woodcarver of the late-Baroque period, active in the region near Bergamo. He was born in Rovetta in 1659, and he died in Bergamo in 1734. He trained with his family of artisans as well as ...

'' *''Portrait of the Advocate Giacomo Bettami de' Bazini'' *''Portrait of Bartolomeo Manganoni'' *''Portrait of Bertrama Daina de' Valsecchi'' *''Portrait of Carlo Tinti'' *''Portrait of Domenico Ghislandi'' *''Portrait of Elizabeth Piavana Ghidotti'' *''Portrait of Young Sculptor'', University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson

Busts

*''Bust of Vitellio Imperatore'' *''Bust of a Poet Laureate''

References

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short bio

External links

Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Galgario (see index) {{DEFAULTSORT:Galgario, Fra 1655 births 1743 deaths Italian portrait painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Italian Baroque painters Minims (religious order) 18th-century Italian male artists