Vincenzo Torregiani or Torreggiani (born in

Budrio Budrio ( Eastern Bolognese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; it is east of Bologna. Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his pseudonym of Quirico Filopanti, an I ...

, active in Bologna 1742 - 1770) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He trained under

Stefano Orlandi Stefano Orlandi (1681 – 29 July 1760) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna in the architectural perspective painting. He is known for painting fanciful architectural canvases, known as Capricci. Biography He trained with his f ...

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. For a few years, he moved to Florence and Rome, where he completed some fresco and tempera. He contributed perspective paintings in the cloister of the Scuderia of

San Michele in Bosco San Michele in Bosco is a religious complex in Bologna, central Italy, including the church with the same name and the annexed Olivetan monastery. The buildings of the monastery were acquired in 1955 by the municipality of Bologna, to house an o ...

. His son Giuseppe, active in 1760, followed his father's profession.Almanacco statistico bolognese
Presso Natale Salvardi, Bologna, page 214.

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