Filippo Abbiati

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Filippo Abbiati (1640-1715) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Lombardy and Turin. Born in Milan, he was a pupil of the painters Antonio Busca, and Alessandro Magnasco was one of his pupils[1]. Ticozzi claims he trained, along with Federigo Bianchi, with Carlo Francesco Nuvolone. Along with Bianchi, he painted the cupola of Sant' Alessandro Martire in Milan. Abbiati alsopainted a St. John preaching in the Wilderness for a church in Saronno[2] .

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  1. ^ ULAN entry
  2. ^ Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 2.