Felice Torelli (9 September 1667 – 11 June 1748) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, active mainly in Bologna.
Biography
editHe was born to a family of artists in Verona, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son, Stefano Torelli, and his wife, Lucia Casalini (1677–1762), were painters. His wife mainly painted portraits. Felice was initially apprenticed to Santi Prunati in Verona, then to Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. In 1710, Torelli was one of the founders of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, and during his time there, Giuseppe Maria Crespi was a member. Torelli's pupils at the academy included the two brothers Ubaldo Gandolfi and Gaetano Gandolfi; his nephew, Giovanni Giorgi;[1] Mariano Collina (died 1780);[2] and Antonio Magnoni.[3]
He painted a Martyrdom of St. Maurelius for Ferrara Cathedral. He painted St Vincent in the act of curing a lunatic woman for the church of the Dominicans in Faenza. Other altarpieces were painted for churches in Rome, Turin, Milan, and other cities in Italy.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Zannandreis.
- ^ Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine, 1796, Volume 8, page 736.
- ^ Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi, By Girolamo Bianconi, page 510.
- Web gallery of Art Biography
- Grove Encyclopedia of Art Biography.
- Virgin with child and Saints
- Dwight C. Miller: "Felice Torelli" (subscription version of Grove Art Online). Oxford University Press.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. pp. 579–580.
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