Flaminio Torre

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Flaminio Torre, also spelt as Flaminio Torri (1620 in Bologna–1661 in Modena[1]) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School, active during the Baroque period.

Flaminio Torre, Holy Family with angel musicians.

He was a pupil of Guido Reni, Giacomo Cavedone, and Simone Cantarini.[2] He was also called Degli Ancinelli, and painted for churches in Bologna; including a Deposition from the Cross for S. Giorgio. Torre died in Modena. Among his pupils were Giulio (or Giuseppe) Cesare Milani, Giovanni Maria Viani, and Alessandro Badile.

Works

  • Adoration of the Magi, San Giuseppe, Bologna
  • Deposition, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna
  • Vision of St. Anthony, Osservanza, Imola
  • Fontana-Bombelli Chapel, Santa Maria della Carità, Bologna
  • Holy Family
  • Painting of Saint Jerome
  • Saint John the Baptist
  • One at Galleria Pallavicini, Rome

References

  1. Museum of Lichenstein
  2. Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator), ed. History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century III. London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 106–107. 

Bibliography

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