Teresa Muratori

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Angela Teresa Muratori (born October 17, 1661 in Bologna , † April 19, 1708 there ) was an Italian painter and musician.

Life

Teresa Muratori was the daughter of a lecturer in philosophy and medicine at the University of Bologna and a city doctor in Bologna, who gave her lessons in painting and music. On October 23, 1690 she married the nobleman Tommaso Gioseffo Maria Scannabecchi dalla Moneta, who let her live out her musical talents.

As a painter, she was initially a student of Emilio Taruffi , then Lorenzo Pasinelli and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole , with whom she often worked. Paintings of her are or were in the churches of S. Agostino, S. Maria di Galliera, S. Nicolò degli Albari, S. Stefano and SS. Trinità in Bologna as well as in the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio .

Of their musical works, a sonnet Oh prodigi de l'arte! in piccol giro (1686) and the oratorios Il martirio di S. Colomba (1689), Li giochi di Sansone (1694), L'Esterre (1695) and Cristo morto (1696).

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Remarks

  1. The statement that she studied with Elisabetta Sirani is wrong, she died in 1665 when she was four years old.

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