Alessandro Turchi
Alessandro Turchi | |
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Rome, Italy | |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Baroque |
Alessandro Turchi (1578 – 22 January 1649) was an Italian painter of the early
Caravaggesque
at the same time.
Biography
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.
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)
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Christ and Adulterous Woman
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Mystical Marriage of St Catherine (Louvre)
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Erminia Finds the Wounded Tancred (Kunsthistorisches Museum)
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Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison.The Walters Art Museum.
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Vision of Christ of the Passion
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Death of Cleopatra
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Diana and Acteon, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
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Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
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Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
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A young general (Alexander ?) showing clemency to two prisoners, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
References
- ^ 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.
External links
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