Tommaso Aldrovandini | |
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| Born | 1653 (1653) |
| Died | 1736 (aged 82–83) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
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Tommaso Aldrovandini (21 December 1653 – 23 October 1736) was an Italian painter of theBaroque period. He mainly painted perspective views and architectural subjects (quadratura), in which the figures were painted byMarcantonio Franceschini andCarlo Cignani. He decorated churches, palaces, and theaters inForlì,Verona,Venice,Parma,Turin,Ferrara, and Genoa, and especially in his native Bologna.[1] Among his pupils wasGiovanni Benedetto Paolazzi.
He was born inBologna on December 21, 1653, son of the painter Giuseppe. He was the main painter among his family and the one who left the greatest number of works.
Introduced to the world of art by his uncle Mauro, he attended the academy ofCesare Gennari and then that of C. Cignani.
After decorating two chapels of the portico of St. Luke, he went toForlì, where he painted the hall of the Public Palace with his uncle and Cignani. He then worked inVenice andVerona and again in Forlì and Bologna. Here he worked decorating the portico of San Bartolomeo as well as in various palaces, as in that of Marescalchi, where the figures were made by Felice Cignani, Ranuzzi, Zaniboni, Grassi, Fongarini.
He worked a lot inParma, where he, being still young, executed quadratures in the rooms of Palazzo del Giardino decorated by Carlo Cignani andMarcantonio Franceschini (1681), and he also decorated a chapel in S. Giovanni (1685). He then went toTurin, where he worked in the Scalzi church (1688) and in the Bagnasco house (1689) withGiovanni Antonio Burrini. After that he moved toFerrara, where he worked withMaurelio Scannavini in the Bevilacqua palace.
In 1692 he was in Bologna to paint the main chapel of the church of the Madonna dei Poveri.
The most important work he executed was in Genoa, where he lived, though with interruptions, almost twenty years. He decorated the rooms of the Great and the Little Council in the Public Palace (destroyed in 1777), the first in 1702 with Franceschini, the other in 1704 with the Genoese Domenico Parodi. During his stay in Genoa he also decorated other rooms in theHouse of Spinola (withAndrea Carlone), Villa Saluzzo ( withPalmieri), Villa Gentile, Villa Lomellini, and Villa Durazzo Pallavicini. He worked in several churches as well.
He then painted withGiacomo Boni, a pupil of M. A. Franceschini, two chapels of the church of the Benedictine monks of Parma, until he finally returned to Bologna in 1725. He died in Bologna on the 23rd of October 1736 and was buried in the church of S. Mamolo.[2]
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