Angelo Banchero

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Angelo Giacinto Banchero (1744–1793) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period.

He was born in

Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. He completed two paintings for a church at Sestri
.

Slow and meticulous in style, his output was limited. He painted an unfinished altarpiece for the parish church of San Siro a Nervi. A heart ailment led to a stroke at the age of 49 years.[1] One of his pupils was Pietro Pedroni.[2]

References

  • Rose, Reverend Hugh James (1848). A New General Biographical Dictionary (Volume III). London: B. Fellowes. p. 103.
  • Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 75.
  1. ^ Rambelli, Gianfrancesco (1834). Emilio de Tipaldo (ed.). Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze: lettere ed arti del Secolo XVIII, e de'Contermporanei. Tipografia di Alvisopoli, Venice. pp. 345–349.
  2. ^ Notizie Dei Professori del Disegno in Liguria Dalla Fondazione, by Federigo Alizeri, Tipografia Luigi Sambolino, Genoa, 1864, Page 398.