Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active in Verona.

Biography

He first apprenticed with

Andrea Voltolino Andrea Voltolino or Voltolini (1643–1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style. Biography He studied with Biagio Falcieri in Verona. He painted in the Sacristy of San Bernardino, Verona. His pupils included Giovanni Battista Belloti (16 ...

. He then trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna. He was described by Carlo Ridolfi as having a ‘’very strange brain’’ with his paintings equally strange. The Fondazione Cariverona has a Perini canvas depicting ''Tancredo al campo crociato piange la morte di Clorinda'' (Tancred in the Crusader camp mourns the death of Clorinda), a work once part of series of depictions of ''Gerusalemma Liberata'' owned by Count Ercole Giusti in his Veronese palace. The series included a work each by Perini, Carl Loth, Antonio Bellucci,

Antonio Fumiani Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he p ...

, Gregorio Lazzarini, and

Simone Brentana Simone Brentana (1656 – 9 June 1742
)) was an Italian painter of the

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(1654-1742), Un pittore della corte francese a Verona monograph for 2003 exhibition at Museo de Castelvecchio, Verona, curated by Paola and Giorgio Marini, pageds 123-125.

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* * 1671 births 1757 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Verona Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub