Alessandro Magnasco Artist

Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.

Personal facts

Alessandro Magnasco
Birth dateFebruary 04, 1667
Birth place
Genoa
Nationality
Italy
Date of deathMarch 12, 1749

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Artist

Field of work
Painting
Movement
Baroque
training at
Valerio Castello
Filippo Abbiati

Topical connections

Antonio BalestraArtist
Alexander RoslinArtist
Alberto TerrileArtist

Alessandro Magnasco on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=1741
  2. http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=1743
  3. http://cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=1744
  4. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/1bacchan.html
  5. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/2brigand.html
  6. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/c_adored.html
  7. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/monks1.html
  8. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/monks2.html
  9. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/prayingm.html
  10. http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/m/magnasco/refector.html