Antonio Amorosi
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Antonio Amorosi (1660-1738) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome.
Amorosi was born in Comunanza, then part of the Papal States. In 1668 he moved to Rome where he was trained by Giuseppe Ghezzi. He painted genre scenes similar to those of the Bamboccianti.
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- 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, page 7.