Domenico Parodi

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Domenico Parodi (1672 – 19 December 1742, in Genoa) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Parodi (1674-1730)

Biography

Domenico was initially apprenticed with in Venice

Paolo Girolamo Piola. Among his pupils were Nicolo Malatto,[1] Angiolo Rossi, Batista Parodi (his brother); and son Domenico. Domenico Junior resided in Lisbon, and was a celebrated portrait painter in his day. Another pupil, briefly, was Francesco Campora. He frescoed a hall in Palazzo Negroni.[2]

References

  1. ^ Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli stati del Re di Sardegna, Volume 7, by Goffredo Casalis, Turin (1840), page 728.
  2. ^ Lanzi, Luigi (1847). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Translated by Thomas Roscoe. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 280.
  • (in Italian) S. Soldani: ‘Profilo di Domenico Parodi’, Crit. A., lxxxvii (1967), pp. 60–70
  • (in Italian) F. Franchini Guelfi: ‘Domenico Parodi’, La scultura a Genova e in Liguria dal seicento al novecento (Campomorone, 1988), ii, pp. 280–1