Ercole Lelli

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Ercole Lelli (1702-1762) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza.

He was a pupil of Giovanni Pietro Zanotti. He excelled in the study of the anatomy of the human body as well as painting; and helped prepare artistic anatomical wax displays at the Bolognese University^[1]. A few pictures are extant, including a Virgin and child with St. Anthony of Padua and St. Clara for the church of Sant' Andrea delle Scuole at Bologna; and a St. Fidèle for the church of the Cappuccini at Piacenza. He was an eminent teacher of design, and became director of the Academy at Bologna, the city where he died. He has also left some engravings, such as Hagar and Islimael.

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• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 39.