Alessandro Turchi

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Alessandro Turchi
Rome, Italy
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Alessandro Turchi (1578 – 22 January 1649) was an Italian painter of the early

Caravaggesque
at the same time.

Biography

Diana and Actaeon

Turchi initially trained with

Pasquale Ottino completed a series of their deceased master's canvases. In 1610, he completed an Assumption altarpiece for the church of San Luca of Verona. In 1612, the Veronese Guild of the Goldsmiths commissioned from Turchi an altarpiece, today lost, of the Madonna and Saints. On leaving the school of Riccio, he went to Venice
, where he worked for a time under Carlo Cagliari.

By 1616, Turchi traveled to Rome and participated in the fresco decoration depicting the Gathering of Manna for the Sala Reggia of the

Marcantonio Bassetti. He also painted a Flight into Egypt for the church of San Romualdo, Rome; a Holy Family for San Lorenzo in Lucina; and a San Carlo Borromeo in San Salvatore in Lauro. He was much employed on cabinet pictures, representing historical subjects, which he frequently painted on black marble. Among his pupils, Giovanni Ceschini and Giovanni Battista Rossi (il Gobbino), practiced in Verona
, the former painting copies of his master's works, which were often taken for originals.

David with the Head of Goliath

For the Count Giangiacomo Giusti, in 1620 he painted an Allegory of Fame between Mercury and Pallas Athena and three canvases of Faith, Hope, and Charity. In 1621 he executed for French cardinal

Palazzo Mattei di Giove
, records a Saint Marta and Maria Madalena and a Samaritan Women by Turchi.

His sister married

Francesco Barberini, he became Principe or director of the Accademia di San Luca. In 1638, he joined the papal guild of artists, called the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon
. He died in Rome in 1649.

Paintings

(selection)

  • Christ and Adulterous Woman
    Christ and Adulterous Woman
  • Mystical Marriage of St Catherine (Louvre)
    Mystical Marriage of St Catherine (Louvre)
  • Erminia Finds the Wounded Tancred (Kunsthistorisches Museum)
    Erminia Finds the Wounded Tancred (Kunsthistorisches Museum)
  • Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison. The Walters Art Museum.
    Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison.
    The Walters Art Museum
    .
  • Vision of Christ of the Passion
    Vision of Christ of the Passion
  • Death of Cleopatra
    Death of Cleopatra
  • Diana and Acteon, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
  • Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
    Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
  • Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
    Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
  • A young general (Alexander ?) showing clemency to two prisoners, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
    A young general (Alexander ?) showing clemency to two prisoners, Mougins Museum of Classical Art

References

  1. ^ now in Galleria Borghese
  • Biography, see Alessandro Turchi 1578-1649 detto l'Orbetto.
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 591.

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