Giacinto Garofalini (1661–1723) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
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period, active mainly in
Bologna
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. He was initially a pupil of
Donato Creti
Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.
Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...
, then a pupil of the painter
Marcantonio Franceschini
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. Also called ''Garofolini'' by
Luigi Lanzi
Luigi Antonio Lanzi (13 June 1732 – 31 March 1810) was an Italian Jesuit priest, known for his writings as an art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelan ...
. He was a professor at 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 ...
, where he taught figure painting.
He married a niece of Franceschini's wife. Together with a fellow pupil,
Ferdinando Cairo, Garofalini painted the vault of the church of
Sant'Antonio in
Brescia
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, as well as some side altarpieces. He painted two large canvases for the Church of the Scalzi Priests. With
Luca Antonio Bistega
Luca Antonio Bistega or Luca Bestega (21 October 1672 - 8 June 1732) was an Italian people, Italian painter of quadratura, active mainly in Bologna, Italy.
Biography
He initially trained with a little-known painter, Barlamo Castellini, but soon mo ...
, a painter of
quadratura
Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...
, he decorated the chapel of San Tommaso del Mercato.
He also worked on the Sanctuary of
Santa Maria Lacrimosa (to which later was added the tag ''degli Alemanni'').
References
1661 births
1723 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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