Stefano Celesti (active after 1635) was an Italian painter of the late-

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, active mainly in

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and territories on the mainland. He was born in

(or possibly

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), the son of the Baroque Venetian painter

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. He was active in

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, and near

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. In 1638 he painted a ''St Mark'' for the Cathedral of

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. Two years later, he executed the portrait of the priest Pasquale da Rovigno for the Franciscan Refectory in the monastery of Sant'Anna in the same town, now in

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. In 1659, he painted a ''Madonna del Carmelo'' for the parish church of Verbosca . He worked with

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in Koper, painting a ''Mystery of the Rosary'' and ''Last Supper''. For the church of Church of S. Antonio Abate in Sasso, in

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, he painted a ''Madonna of the Rosary'' in 1658.

Sources

* ''Studi romagnoli'', a cura della Società di studi romagnoli, 2003, pag. 20. * L. Anelli, P. Bellotti, A. Bonomi, I. Lechi e J. Rosengarten, ''Pietro Bellotti: 1625-1700'', 1996. * Italo Sennio, ''La Chiesa e il Convento di S. Anna in Capodistria'', Koper, 1910. * N. Pozza, ''Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte'', volume 30, 2006. * G. Panazza, ''Le manifestazioni artistiche della sponda bresciana del Garda'', in “Il Lago di Garda. Storia di una comunità lacuale, Salò, 1969, pag 252. * ''Arte cristiana'', a cura della Scuola beato angelico, Società amici dell'arte cristiana, volume 79, numeri 742-747, Milano 1991. * Pietro Stancovich, ''Biografia degli uomini distinti dell'Istria'', 1829.
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