Giuseppe Melani
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Giuseppe Melani (1673 - 1747) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa.
He initially apprenticed with Camillo Gabrielli, and then became was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, who was a trainee of Pietro da Cortona. For the Pisa Cathedral, he painted a Death of San Ranieri. He also painted figures for architectural frescoes, such as the vault of San Matteo (c. 1720) in Pisa, along with his brother Francesco Melani (died 1742).
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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 102.
- Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks, page 87.
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