All TURCHI, Alessandro's oil paintings
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9380 Bacchus and Ariadne wt Bacchus and Ariadne wt Oil on canvas, 114,5 x 147,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
9381 The Lamentation over the Dead Christ t The Lamentation over the Dead Christ t 1617 Oil on slate, 42 x 53 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome
TURCHI, Alessandro
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1578-1649 Italian painter. He first studied in Verona with Felice Brusasorci in whose studio he was recorded in 1597 (Brenzoni). Dal Pozzo reported that Turchi completed Brusasorci's Fall of the Manna (Verona, S Giorgio) after his master's death in 1605; his early Veronese paintings, such as the Adoration of the Shepherds (1608; Verona, S Fermo), are ambitious, with many figures and elaborate backgrounds, echoing the local tradition of which Paolo Veronese was the most distinguished exponent. Turchi may have gone to Venice with his fellow pupil, Marcantonio Bassetti, before moving to Rome c. 1614-15. He was paid for work in the Sala Regia of the Palazzo del Quirinale in 1616-17 (Briganti), where he collaborated with a team of artists, among them Giovanni Lanfranco and Carlo Saraceni. His part was to paint an oval medallion with the Gathering of the Manna (in situ) in a style that suggests Lanfranco's influence. He soon found patrons for altarpieces and cabinet paintings, among them Cardinal Scipione Borghese. By 1619 he had settled permanently in Rome and was a member of the Accademia di S Luca, . Related Artists to : | Jean Pillement | Alexey Danilovich Kivshenko | Francisco de herrera the elder | Paul Kane | Polk, Charles Peale |