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Italian painter (c.1647–1726)

Gregorio de Ferrari (c.

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1647–1726) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Genoese School.

Biography

De Ferrari was born in Porto Maurizio. He came to Genoa to study law but instead became a painter. He apprenticed with Domenico Fiasella from 1664 to 1669, and in this period he may have painted in the style of Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Giovanni Battista Casone.

He assisted Fiasella on the altarpiece St Clare Repulsing the Saracens (1667) for the parish church in Montoggio.

Parma

He travelled to Parma (staying from 1669 to 1673), where he worked in quadratura frescoes.

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It was here where he abandoned Fiasella's monumental style in favour of a more characteristic, lyrical style. He also made copies of Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the Parma cathedral, two of which - Rest on the Flight to Egypt and Virgin with St. Jerome and the Magdalene - were later listed as the property of Anton Raphael Mengs.

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