Angelo Michele Colonna
Angelo Michele Colonna | |
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| Born | 21 September 1604 |
| Died | 1687 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Angelo Michele Colonna (21 September 1604 – 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna, northern and central Italy and Spain. He is sometimes referred to as Michelangelo Colonna.
Biography
He was born in
Gabriello Ferrantino or il Occhiale, and then the early quadratura master, Girolamo Curti
, called il Dentone.
He painted
and others in the decoration of the Oratory of San Rocco in Bologna, painting six of the saints and allegories. In 1627, he painted in San Michele in Bosco.After Curti died in 1632, Colonna began a long collaboration with the skilled quadratura painter
Pitti Palace in Florence, including a large fresco of the 'Fame of the Medici crowned by Glory'.[1]
They became the pre-eminent quadratura fresco painters of northern Italy with Colonna principally executing the figurative elements and Mitelli, the quadratura or illusionistic architectural frameworks: in Modena, they painted in the
basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, including a framed 'Assumption of the Virgin'; and between 1653 and 1658, they painted the gallery leading to the High Altar of San Michele in Bosco
.
In 1658, Colonna left Italy to go to Spain to work for
Palazzo Comunale or town hall of Bologna, working with Gioacchino Pizzoli. Giuseppe Romani
was one of his apprentices.
Colonna died at Bologna in 1687.
References
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Sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 48.
- Anales de Historia del Arte ISSN 0214-64521998. 8:197-222; Angelo Michele Colonna: sus aportaciones à la pintura barroca decorativa en Italia by Aida Anguiano de Miguel.
- Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini (1843). "Parte Quinta". Vite de Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi. Tipografia Governativa alla Volpe, Bologna. pp. 324–344.
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