Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco , known as He Lissandrino (Genoa, February 4th, 1667 - 1749) is an Italian painter Rococo of the school génoise.

Biography

After the death of his Stefano father in 1674, he becomes the pupil of Valerio Castello, he attends the '' Casa di Piola '', then he is entrusted to a merchant of his birthplace which, in approximately 1682, leads it to Milan as raises Filippo Abbiati where he is especially influenced by the Venetian current, by Marco Ricci, Cairo or Cerano.

He is regarded as one of the most original painters of the 18th century, Italian Settecento, which is distinguished, in the popular painting of kind, with a dense pallet of luminous contrasts which tended to build obscure apparatuses and distorted figures.

Its first work, according to the sources, was portraits, a kind quickly abandoned to dedicate to landscapes with animated scenes of figures of monks, gipsies, gangsters and travelling acrobats inserted in scenes of agreed dark landscapes.

He shares influence and exchanges with Antonio Francesco Peruzzini, as much with Clemente Spera and with his/her friend Carlo Antonio Tavella who will turn over, like him, in Genoa, which will complicate attributions of their often common works.

The first remarkable work is a Paysage of ruins (1697) preserved in a collection deprived at Milan.

From 1703 to 1710, it passes to Florence to the service of that which will become large-duke of Toscane of the Médicis family: Gian Gastone second wire of Cosme III of Médicis. It is invested then in a series of paintings and the engravings dedicated to the so-called kind of painting caricata E giocosa as those of Stefano della Bella, Baccio del Bianco, Jacques Callot, Salvator Rosa, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, all accustomed of the court of the last Médicis large-dukes.

In 1711, gone back to Milan, it is in charge of the execution of decorations for the triumphal entry of the emperor Charles VI of the Holy roman Empire.

Between 1720 and 1725, it paints, the count Colloredo, governor of Milan, nine tables, among which the Leçon of catechism and the Synagog .

Gone back to Genoa in 1735, it carries out the Trattenimento in a giardino di Albaro (Reception in a garden of Albaro), now preserved at the gallery of the Palazzo Bianco.

Works

Monks requesting in a cave , Metropolitan Museum off Art
Soldiers feasting (1725), Fine Arts Museum off San Francisco
the Meeting of Quaker (1695)
the Hospital (~1706), national museum of the Art schools, Bucharest
Landscape with saint Jean , National museum of Belgrade
architectural Whim (~1708), oil on fabric, oval of 72 cm X 95 cm, castle of Maine, France

Resurrection of Lazare , (1715-1740) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Trattenimento in a giardino di Albaro , gallery of Palazzo Bianco of Genoa

To the Getty Center:

Christ and Samaritaine (1705-1710)

Noli me tangere (1705-1710)

Orgies (1720-1730)

Venus Triumph (1720-1730)

With the Museum of Louvre:

Holy François comforted by the music of an angel violonist

bridal Banquet Gipsies

the workshop of a painter

Monk lutinant a nun

Landscape with a man stirring up a barrel at the edge of the shore

Three loggers transporting a tree trunk , drawing

Christ curing paralytic the

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Monks in prayer , Museum of the Art schools of Bordeaux

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