Antonio Zanchi - Artist Info

About Antonio Zanchi

  • Biography

    Antonio Zanchi best expressed naturalism chiaroscuro of seventeenth-century Venetian painting, learned observing not only the examples of John the Baptist Langetti (Genoa, 1625 - Venice 1676) and Francesco Ruschi (Rome, about 1610 - Treviso, 1661), but especially the exuberant compositions by Luca Giordano (Naples, 1632-1705) visible in the lagoon city.

    His work is characterized by bold views, aspects that the author manifests from the early works, also competing with the courtly examples of Jacopo Tintoretto. Science in this regard is his speech at the Scuola di San Rocco in 1666, which ties in with lofty outcomes representing the sad effects of the plague.

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