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1734 San Matteo della Decima, Italy - 1802 Bologna, Italy. Known for: Religious, history, and allegory painting, fresco, etching, sculpture, teaching.
From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output... Read full biography
From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output of about 220 paintings plus etchings, terracotta sculptures and many drawings, he also had a... Read full biography
From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output of about 220 paintings plus etchings, terracotta sculptures and many drawings, he also had a national reputation as one of the "greatest Italian artists of his century."(european) . He came from a family of artists, and their work, 1760s to 1820s, represents the transition from Baroque to... Read full biography
From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output of about 220 paintings plus etchings, terracotta sculptures and many drawings, he also had a national reputation as one of the "greatest Italian artists of his century."(european) . He came from a family of artists, and their work, 1760s to 1820s, represents the transition from Baroque to Neo-Classicism and then onto Romanticism. Collectively they made "an outstanding contribution to the great figurative tradition of Bolognese draughtsmanship". (web gallery) Family members in addition to Gaetano Gandolfi included his brother Ubaldo, Gaetano's... Read full biography
From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output of about 220 paintings plus etchings, terracotta sculptures and many drawings, he also had a national reputation as one of the "greatest Italian artists of his century."(european) . He came from a family of artists, and their work, 1760s to 1820s, represents the transition from Baroque to Neo-Classicism and then onto Romanticism. Collectively they made "an outstanding contribution to the great figurative tradition of Bolognese draughtsmanship". (web gallery) Family members in addition to Gaetano Gandolfi included his brother Ubaldo, Gaetano's sons, Giovanni, Democrito, and Mauro, and a granddaughter, Clementina Gandolfi. Much of his wo... Read full biography
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From the Po Valley in Italy, where his father managed land, Gaetano Gandolfi became a prominent artist in the area of Bologna---active for nearly five decades in the late 17th Century. With an output of about 220 paintings plus etchings, terracotta sculptures and many drawings, he also had a national reputation as one of the "greatest Italian artists of his century."(european)
He came from a family of artists, and their work, 1760s to 1820s, represents the transition from Baroque to Neo-Classicism and then onto Romanticism. Collectively they made "an outstanding contribution to the great figurative tradition of Bolognese draughtsmanship". (web gallery) Family members in addition to Gaetano Gando...But wait, there's more...
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