Gerolamo Forabosco
Girolamo Forabosco or Gerolamo Forabosco (1605 – 23 January 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was active in Padua and his birthplace of Venice, where he was enrolled in the Venetian Fraglia dei Pittori between 1634 and 1639 and paid taxes in Venice from 1640 to 1644. He was a pupil of Alessandro Varotari (il Padovanino), and influenced in Venice by Bernardo Strozzi.
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Gerolamo Forabosco
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- Born
- 1605 · Venice.
- Died
- 1679 · Padua.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter · artist
- Fields
- portrait
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Girolamo Forabosco or Gerolamo Forabosco (1605 – 23 January 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was active in Padua and his birthplace of Venice, where he was enrolled in the Venetian Fraglia dei Pittori between 1634 and 1639 and paid taxes in Venice from 1640 to 1644. He was a pupil of Alessandro Varotari (il Padovanino), and influenced in Venice by Bernardo Strozzi.
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Gregorio Lazzarini and Pietro Bellotto were among his pupils. He died in Padua. • Illustration — Girolamo Forabosco, Portrait of a Courtesan, Uffizi, Florence • Illustration — Apollo and the Cuman Sibyl, Pinacoteca Egidio Martini Venice
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Work by Gerolamo Forabosco is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Liechtenstein Museum and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
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1605
Gerolamo Forabosco born at Venice.
1679
Gerolamo Forabosco died at Padua.
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