Giovanni Antonio Burrini

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Giovanni Antonio Burrini
Self-portrait
Born(1656-04-25)25 April 1656
Bologna, Italy
Died5 January 1727(1727-01-05) (aged 70)
Bologna, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting

Giovanni Antonio Burrini (25 April 1656 – 5 January 1727) was a

Accademia Clementina
in Bologna.

His daughter Barbara Burrini was also a painter. Among his pupils was Bartolomeo Mercati.[2]

Partial anthology of works

  • Joseph Interpreting Dreams (Muzeum, Warsaw)
  • Samson and Delilah
  • Martyrdom of Saint Victoria
  • Fresco Cycle (Villa Albergata, Zola Predosa)
  • Martyrdom Of Saint Euphemia (1686, Chiesa Saint Euphemia, Ravenna)
  • Frescoes (Palazzo Ruini, Bologna)
  • Frescoes (San Giovanni Battista dei Celestini, Bologna)
  • Susannah and the Elders (Pinacoteca, Bologna)
  • Sacrifice of Isaac (Louvre, Paris)
  • Orpheus and Eurydice (1697)
  • Frescoes (1695, San Bartolomeo, Bologna)
  • Martyrdom Of Saint Catherine (Santa Caterina di Saragozza, Bologna)
  • Immaculate Virgin with Saints Petronius & Dionysius the Areopagite (1684, Chiesa Parrocchiale, Monghidoro)
  • Adoration of the Magi (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
  • Bacchus and Ariadne (Private Collection)
  • Herminia and the Shepherds (Pinacoteca, Bologna)[1]
  • Infant Jesus, Saint Joseph, and three saints (Louvre) [2]

References

  • Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief) (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (ed.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. pp. 385–391. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  • Grove Art encyclopedia abstract
  1. ^ Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator) (ed.). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Henry G. Bohn, Covent Garden, London; Original from Oxford University Digitized Jan 31, 2007. p. 147. {{cite book}}: |editor= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi, by Girolamo Bianconi; Bologna; 1820; page 516.

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