Fra Galgario
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Frá Galgario, whose name was Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called Fra Vittore del Galgario (1655-1743) was a Bergamese painter, mainly of portraits during the 'Rococo' epoch. He was born in Bergamo to an artist father. Initially entered the studio of Giacomo Cotta, then Bartolomeo Bianchi, and finally the studio of Sebastiano Bombelli in Venice of the 1690s. He also reported trained with Salomon Adler in Milan.
In 1702, he entered the religious life in the Order of the Minims of the Monastery of Galgario, in Bergamo. He was elected a member of the Milanese Accademia Clementina in 1717.
He is said to blend the attention to colorism and glamour that captivates Renaissance-Baroque portraiture of Venice, with the realism of Milanese art such as that of Moroni.
