Giuseppe Melani

Giuseppe Melani or Milani (13 August, 1673 - 7 November, 1747) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa.[1]

Biography

His father, Pietro Milani, was a painter. He initially apprenticed with Camillo Gabrielli, a pupil of Ciro Ferri. For the Pisa Cathedral, he painted a Death of San Ranieri. He also painted figures for architectural frescoes, such as the vault of San Matteo (c. 1720) in Pisa, along with his brother Francesco Melani (also an architect, April 7, 1675 -August 21, 1742).[2] Among the pupils of Melani were Tommaso Tommasi, Giuseppe Bracci, Jacopo Donati, Bartolommeo Santini, and Ranieri Gabbrielli.[3]

References
  1. Memorie istoriche di più uomini illustri pisani, Volume 4, by M.Angelo Fabroni. Pisa, 1792, page 381.
  2. Fabroni, page 381.
  3. Fabroni, page 380.
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 102.
  • Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks. p. 87.


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