Agostino Mitelli
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Agostino Mitelli (March 16, 1609 - August 2, 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period as a painter of quadratura.
He was born in Battidizzo, near Bologna. He died in Madrid, while working for the court of Philip IV of Spain. He was a pupil of Gabriele Ferrantini(degli Occhiali), Girolamo Curti, and colleague of Michelangelo Colonna in Bologna. Examples of his quadratura can be found at Bologna, Parma, Modena, Florence, Rome, and Genoa, testifying to the popularity of the style. Colonna and Mitelli even traveled to Madrid, in 1658, to help decorate the Royal AAlcazar and the Palace of Buen Retiro. Mitelli died in Madrid. He also published some etchings in a manuscript titled Freggi dell' architettura da Agostino Mitelli.
Through his numerous pupils who spread out through Italy and Europe, Mitelli exerted a strong influence in the "school" of painted architectural perspectives (quadratura). His son Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634-1718) was also a painter and engraver. Two of his daughters married pupils of his, Baldassare Bianchi, who was mainly active in Mantua, and Giacomo Alboresi, who was mainly active in Parma and Florence. Giovanni Paderna, Bianchi's first master, had been a follower of Mitelli. Giovanni Giacomo Monti, a partner of Bianchi, was Mitelli's pupil. Domenico Santi, named Mengazzino, Francesco Quaino, and Andrea Montecelli were Mitelli's pupils.
[edit] References
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: 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. 106.
- Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini (1843). "Parte Quinta", Vite de Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi. Tipografia Governativa alla Volpe, Bologna, pp. 291-324.
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