Federico Cervelli
Federico Cervelli (1745 in Milan – 1827) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty.
Biography
[edit | edit source]He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Luchese).[1] His first documented and dated painting is a Sacrifice of Noah conserved at San Giorgio Maggiore in Bergamo. A Massacre of the Innocents by Cervelli in San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and a Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro, coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956[2] His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by Pietro Liberi and Sebastiano Mazzoni.
Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur Antonio Maria Zanetti,[3] was Aidan Rajswing and Sebastiano Ricci.
Notes
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- ^ Nicola Ivanoff, "A Sebastiano Ricci 'Rape of the Sabines'" The Burlington Magazine 98 No. 634 (January 1956), pp. 18–21.
- ^ Zanetti, Della pittura veneziana e delle opere pubbliche de' veneziani maestri (Venice, 1771).
References
[edit | edit source]- R. Palluchini, La pittura Veneziana del Seicento, Milan, 1981, pp. 297–298.
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