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Alessandro Turchi
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Portrait of Alessandro Turchi
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| Born | 1578 |
| Died | 22 January 1649 (aged 70–71) |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Alessandro Turchi (born 1578 – died 1649) was an Italian painter. He was an important artist during the early Baroque period. He was born and worked mostly in Verona, a city in Italy. Later in his life, he moved to Rome. People also knew him as Alessandro Veronese or by his nickname L'Orbetto. His paintings are known for being both soft and dramatic at the same time.
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Life and Art of Alessandro Turchi
Early Training in Verona
Alessandro Turchi started learning art in Verona. His first teacher was Felice Riccio, also known as il Brusasorci. By 1603, Turchi was working as an independent painter. From 1606 to 1609, he painted special organ covers for the Accademia Filarmonica in Verona.
When his teacher Brusasorci passed away in 1605, Turchi and another painter, Pasquale Ottino, finished some of their master's unfinished paintings. In 1610, Turchi completed a large painting for an altar, called an Assumption altarpiece, for the church of San Luca in Verona. In 1612, a group of goldsmiths in Verona asked Turchi to paint another altarpiece, but this one is now lost. After leaving Riccio's school, Turchi went to Venice, where he worked for a short time with another artist named Carlo Cagliari.
Moving to Rome and New Projects
By 1616, Alessandro Turchi traveled to Rome. There, he helped decorate the Sala Reggia in the Quirinal Palace with a fresco showing the Gathering of Manna. He also painted a picture of Christ, Magdalen, and Angels for an important church leader, Cardinal Scipione Borghese.
Turchi also competed with famous painters like Andrea Sacchi and Pietro da Cortona. He painted several pictures for the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini. In 1619, he sent a painting of the 40 martyrs to a chapel in Verona. It was placed next to paintings by Pasquale Ottino and Marcantonio Bassetti.
He painted other important works in Rome. These included a Flight into Egypt for the church of San Romualdo. He also painted a Holy Family for San Lorenzo in Lucina and a San Carlo Borromeo for San Salvatore in Lauro. Turchi was very busy painting smaller pictures, often on black marble. These usually showed historical events.
Later Works and Recognition
In 1620, Alessandro Turchi painted an Allegory of Fame for Count Giangiacomo Giusti. He also created three paintings representing Faith, Hope, and Charity. In 1621, he painted the Resurrection of Christ for a French cardinal. This painting is now in the cathedral of Sant'Andrea in Bordeaux. He also painted the Adoration of the Magi for the Gherardini family in Verona.
By 1621, he finished a painting of San Carlo Borromeo and the Madonna in Glory for San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome. Records from 1629 show that Turchi was paid for painting St. Anthony of Padua for the Farnese Palace at Caprarola. In 1632, an inventory of the Palazzo Mattei di Giove listed two of his paintings: Saint Marta and Maria Madalena and a Samaritan Women.
Alessandro Turchi married Lucia San Giuliano in 1623. His sister married another artist, Giacinto Gimignani. In 1637, with help from Cardinal Francesco Barberini, Turchi became the director, or Principe, of the Accademia di San Luca. This was a very important art academy. In 1638, he joined another papal group of artists called the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon. Alessandro Turchi passed away in Rome in 1649.
Paintings
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Christ and ... Woman
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Mystical Marriage of St Catherine (Louvre)
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Erminia Finds the Wounded Tancred (Kunsthistorisches Museum)
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Saint Agatha Attended by Saint Peter and an Angel in Prison. The Walters Art Museum.
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Vision of Christ of the Passion
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Abduction of Helen, Mougins Museum of Classical Art
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See also
In Spanish: Alessandro Turchi para niños
