Gian Carlo Aliberti, also Giancarlo or Giovanni Carlo Aliberti, (13 February 1670 - 2 February 1727) was a prolific

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ese painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.V. Malfatto and P. Rogna
''Asti nella storia delle sue vie''
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Biography

He was born in

Canelli Canelli (Piedmontese: ''Canèj'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Asti in the Italian region of Piedmont. As of 31 January 2024 it has a population of 10,022 Canelli is located on a bend of the river Belbo in the ''Alto Monferrat ...

in 1670 (according to some sources on 5 March 1662). He soon moved to

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. His artistic training is not known. According to Lanzi he made his own manner of painting, that is, he resented the Maratta and the Carracci school, with some echoes from Correggio. His activity, very fervent, however, took place within his region. He trained likely with Giovanni Battista Fariano in Asti. By the turn of the century, he moved to

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, to pursue further training. Returning to Asti, he wed the daughter of the painter

Giovanni Antonio Laveglia Giovanni Antonio Laveglia/LaVeglia (1653 – after 1710) was an Italian painter of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, active in the Piedmont. Biography He was born in Carmagnola to father painter, Pietro Laveglia, (1625-1675) who had emigr ...

. In Canelli, there are two canvases, ''Death of St Joseph'' and an ''Immaculate Conception'' located in the parish church of San Tommaso. Other paintings in the city include a ''Pentecost'', an ''Epiphany'', a ''St Roch among the pestilent'' and a ''St George''. Many of his frescoes, painted in the

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manner, have been lost along with the churches for which they were made. Two from Sant’Anastasio, Asti (demolished in 1907) are conserved in the town's civic art gallery in Palazzo Mazzetti: ''Tobias and the Angel'', and ''Healing of the Paralyzed''. The Gallery also exhibits ''St Anne between St Carlo Borromeo and Ste Cristina''. The ''Miracle of Saint Clare'' is depicted at the church of Santa Chiara in

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. His works are also found in

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; San Martino,

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; and Sant'Agostino,

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''Piemonte (non compresa Torino)''
Guida d'Italia, 1, 8th edn. (Milan: Touring Editore, 1976), pp. 144, 186, 233. He died in Asti in 1740. He had two sons: Carlo Filippo, born in Asti, who died after 1776, civil architect and theater designer, and Giuseppe Amedeo, known as Abate Aliberti, born in Asti around 1710, who died in 1772, a painter, also known by the name of Gian Giacomo.

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