Alessandro Turchi
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Alessandro Turchi (1578 - 1649 was a Italian painter of the early Baroque, born and active mainly in Verona, and moving late in life to Rome. He also went by the name Alessandro Veronese.
Trained with Felice Brusasorci in Verona. By 1603, he is an independent painter in Verona. In 1606-1609, Turchi works for the Filarmonica Academy of Verona, painting the organ shutters. when Brusasorci dies in 1605, Turchi and Paschal Ottino complete a series of the masters canvases. In 1610, he completes an Assumption altarpiece for the church of Saint Luca of Verona In 1612, the Veronese Guild of the Goldsmiths commissions an altarpiece, today lost, of the Madonna and Saints.By 1616, Turchi is in Rome participating in the fresco decoration (Gathering of Manna) of the Sala Regia of the Quirinal Palace, and painting a Christ, Magdalen, and angels for cardinal Scipione Borghese (now in Galleria Borghese). In 1619, he sends an altarpiece of the 40 martyrs for the Chapel of the Innocents in Santo Stefano of Verona, to hang next to paintings by Pasquale Ottino and Marcantonio Bassetti. In 1621 executes for French cardinal François de Sourdis the Resurrection of Christ, now in the cathedral of Sant' Andrea of Bordeaux, and, sends the Adoration of the Magi to the Gherardini family in Verona By 1621, he had completed a painting of San Carlo Borromeo and the Madonna in Glory for San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome. His sister married Giacinto Gimignani. In 1623, Turchi marries Lucia San Giuliano. For the Count Giangiacomo Giusti, in 1620 he paints an Allegory of Fame between Mercury and Pallas Athena and three canvases of Faith, Hope, and Charity.
There are documents from 1629, indicating a payment of 110 scudi to Turchi for painting “S. Antonio of Padova” for the palace at Caprarola. In 1632, an inventory of the Palazzo Mattei di Giove, records a “Saint Marta, and Saint Maria Madalena and aSamaritan Women by Turchi.
In 1637, with the sponsoship of cardinal Francesco Barberini, he became Principe or director of the Accademia di San Luca. In 1638, he joined the Pontifical Accademia dei Virtuosi.
