Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late-
Baroque
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period, active in
Verona
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Biography
He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino. 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
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Biography
Ridolfi was born in Lonigo near Vicenza.
He was a pupil of the painter Antonio Vassilacchi (Aliense). He painted a ''Visitation'' for the Og ...
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
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Gregorio Lazzarini
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, and
Simone Brentana
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