Lorenzo Peracino (16 May 1710 - 25 December 1789) was an

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painter active near Novara in northern Italy.

Biography

He was born at Bosco, in what is now Cellio con Breia, to peasant parents. Lorenzo was likely educated as a boy in the town of Cellio. It is unclear where he learned painting. His first known work is a ''Martyrdom of St Mamante''(1736) located in the parish church of

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. In 1747 he designs frescoes for the five chapels of the Misteri Dolorosi of the sanctuary-church of San Pietro, called the chiesa da Lopià. From 1748 to 1752: Peracino worked in

Galliate Galliate is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin, about northwest Milan and about northeast of Novara. Galliate borders the following municipalities: Cameri, Nova ...

. In 1754, he decorated the chapel of the Crucifix in the parish church of Cellio. In 1756, he frescoed two chapels in the parish church of

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. Between 1759 and 1762, he frescoed the cupola of the sanctuary at Galliate. In 1761, he decorated the ceiling of the Presbytery and choir of the parish church of Breia, and the Chapel of the Crucifix in the Collegiata di

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, and the ceiling, spandrels, and lunettes of the ''Tempietto di San Clemente'' in the parish church of

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. In 1778 he designs the fresco decoration for the sacristy of the Sanctuary del Varallino di Galliate.Pro Loco Valle di Cellio
short biography by Dr Sara Brustio.

References

1710 births 1789 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Piedmont People from Cellio con Breia 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub