Alessandro Tiarini

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Alessandro Tiarini (born March 20, 1577 in Bologna , † February 8, 1668 ) was an Italian painter .

His mother died early; he grew up with an aunt who tried unsuccessfully to induce him to pursue a career in the church.

The painter Lavinia Fontana was his godmother. His teachers included Prospero Fontana and Bartolomeo Cesi . After a fatal argument, Tiarini fled to Florence. There he worked mainly for Domenico Passignano , but also for Bernardino Poccetti and Jacopo da Empoli .

literature

  • Daniele Benati and Angelo Mazza: Alessandro Tiarini: la grande stagione del Seicento a Reggio Emilia . Ed .: Federico Motta. Catalogo della mostra tenutasi a Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, 2002.
  • Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief): National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Eds.): The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries 1986, p. 538 -542.
  • Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini: Vite de Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi . Party quinta . Tipografia Governativa alla Volpe ed Nobili, Bologna, 1843, pp. 72-93.
  • Michael Bryan: Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (Eds.): Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II LZ) . George Bell and Sons, York St. # 4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 1889, p. 570.

Web links

Commons : Alessandro Tiarini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Amorini (1843: 72)