Giacomo Alboresi

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Giacomo Alboresi (1632–1677) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Biography

Born in

quadratura painter Agostino Mitelli
who instructed him in decorative fresco painting, and procured him commissions.

In 1659 he married the stepdaughter of Mitelli and, after the death of the master (1660), he was considered the heir of the decorative style that Mitelli had created. He limited himself to repeating diligently designs of his master.[1] Later he worked under Angelo Michele Colonna in Spain, Florence, and Parma.

Colonna and Alboresi used painters

Cathedral of Florence
.

References

  • Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. pp. 35–36.
  • 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. 15.
  1. ^ Arfelli, Adriana. "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 2 (1960)". Treccani. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  2. ^ La storia delle arti del disegno, studiata nei monumenti che si conservano in Bologna e nei suburbi, by A.C. Romagnoli, D. Giannitrapani, published by Tipografia Gamberini e Parmeggiani, 1888, page 83.