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Italian painter
Young boy with apples
Fra’ Galgario (4 March 1655 – December 1743), born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi , and also called Fra’ Vittore del Galgario , was an Italian painter, mainly active in
Bergamo as a portraitist during the
Rococo or late-
Baroque period.
Biography
He was born in Bergamo to an artist father,
Domenico Ghislandi . Initially, he entered the studio of
Giacomo Cotta , then
Bartolomeo Bianchi , and finally the studio of
Sebastiano Bombelli in
Venice in the 1690s. He also reported training with the German portrait artist
Salomon Adler in
Milan .
In 1702, he entered the religious life in the Order of the
Minims of the
Monastery of Galgario , in Bergamo. He assumed the name of the saint for whom the monastery is named. He was elected a member of the Milanese
Accademia Clementina in 1717.
He is said to blend the attention to colourism and glamour that captivates Renaissance-Baroque portraiture of Venice, with the realism of Milanese art such as that of
Moroni . Among his pupils were
Paolo Bonomino ,
Cesare Femi , and
Pietro Gualdi (18th century painter) .
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Works
Giovane con bicchiere di vino e natura morta con pane e cipolla
Giovane con turbante
Ragazzo col cappello piumato (L’Allegrezza)
Portraits
Count Giovanni Battista Vailetti
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Portrait of Francesco Maria Bruntino
Portrait of Advocate Giacomo Battamni de'Bazni
Portrait of G. Secco Suardo
Portrait of Count Galeatius Secco Suardo (1681-1733)
Portrait of the Gentleman of Finardi's House (1710)
Gentlewoman (around 1710)
Luigi Koelliker collection:
Portrait of Gian Domenico Tassi (between 1710–15)
Portrait of Clara Benaglio Finardi (1710), private collection
Giovanni Secco Suardo and Servant (1711) Giovanni Secco Suardo
Gentleman
Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti (1720), Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice
Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti
Portrait of a Young Girl , National Museum of Fine Arts, Algiers
Portrait of Count Andra Asperti With His Son
Portrait of Count Bartolomeo Secco Suardo in Arms
Portrait of Count Filippo Marenzi
Portrait of Count Gerolamo Secco Suardo
Portrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti
Portrait of Dottor Bernardi
Portrait of Marquess Giuseppe Maria Rota and Captain Antonio Brinzago da Lodi
Portrait of Marshal
Matthias von der Schulenburg
Portrait of Sculptor
Andrea Fantoni
Portrait of the Advocate Giacomo Bettami de' Bazini
Portrait of Bartolomeo Manganoni
Portrait of Bertrama Daina de' Valsecchi
Portrait of Carlo Tinti
Portrait of Domenico Ghislandi
Portrait of Elizabeth Piavana Ghidotti
Portrait of Young Sculptor ,
University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson
Busts
Bust of Vitellio Imperatore
Bust of a Poet Laureate
References
Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750". Pelican History of Art . 1980. Penguin Books Ltd. p. 493.
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