Alessandro Turchi
Alessandro Turchi (* 1578 in Verona , † January 22, 1649 in Rome ) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque . He is also known under the name of Alessandro Veronese or as L'Orbetto; he got the nickname because he blinked in one eye. In addition to finely painted cabinet pieces on slate or marble, he later also created canvas pictures with mythological and Christian themes.
Training in Verona and first work
Alessandro Turchi was trained in the workshop of Felice Brusasorzi , one of the Veronese masters of late Mannerism , and was already working as a freelancer from 1603. In 1610 he completed an altarpiece for the church of San Luca in Verona, and in 1612 the Veronese Guild of Goldsmiths commissioned him for an altarpiece - now lost - “Madonna and the Saints”. Then he left Brusasorzi's workshop and went to Venice for a while .
In 1616 Turchi traveled to Rome and took part in a fresco in the Sala Regia of the Palazzo del Quirinale and then painted Christ, Magdalena and angels for Cardinal Scipione Borghese . In Rome he came under the influence of Carracci as well as Guido Reni and Caravaggio , whose chiaroscuro style he then translated into softer and more pleasant forms in line with his Venetian schooling.
Time in rome
In the Church of Santa Maria della Concezione , Turchi competed with Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona . In 1619 he painted the altarpiece "40 Martyrs" for the chapel of the Church of Santo Stefano in Verona; it found its place there alongside the paintings by Pasquale Ottino and Marcantonio Bassetti . He also painted the “Flight into Egypt” for the Church of S. Romualdo, the “Holy Family” for the Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina and the depiction of “ San Carlo Borromeo ” for the Church of San Salvatore in Lauro .
For Count Giangiacomo Giusti , he created an allegorical representation of "Mercury and Pallas Athene" and three other paintings in 1620. In 1621 he carried out the "Resurrection of Christ" for the French Cardinal François d'Escoubleau de Sourdis , which is now in the Cathedral of Bordeaux ; the Gherardini family in Verona received from him the "Adoration of the Magi". In 1621 he completed the pictures "San Carlo Borromeo" and "Madonna in Glory" for the Church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome. An inventory list of Palazzo Mattei di Giove from 1632 lists two more pictures by Turchi.
In 1623 Turchi married Lucia San Giuliano. In 1637, with the assistance of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he became President of the Accademia di San Luca , and in 1638 he joined the Pontifical Accademia dei Virtuosi des Pantheon . Turchi's sister married the painter Giacinto Gimignani in 1640 .
literature
- Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon. Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1975, Volume 24, p. 14.
Individual evidence
- ↑ now in the Galleria Borghese
Web links
- Comune Verona - Vita e Opere Alessandro Turchi (Italian)
- museo di castelvecchio - Exhibition (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turchi, Alessandro |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1578 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verona |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1649 |
| Place of death | Rome |