Francesco Albani
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Baroque painter (1578–1660)
Key facts
- Born
- 17 March or 17 August 1578, Bologna, Romagna , Papal States (modern Bologna , Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
- Died
- 4 October 1660 (1660-10-04) (aged 82), Bologna, Romagna, Papal States (modern Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy)
- Education
- Ludovico Carracci
- Occupation
- Painter
- Notable work
- Nativity of the Virgin ( c. 1598 )
- Movement
- Baroque
- Patrons
- Vincenzo Giustiniani
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francesco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Papal States
- Place of birth
- Bologna
- Place of death
- Bologna
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Denys Calvaert
- Field of work
- painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- Francesco Albani -felsinapittricev02malv 0 0234.jpg
- Work location
- Viterbo
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- Commons category
- Francesco Albani
- date of birth
- 1578-08-17
- date of death
- 1660-10-04
- Commons Creator page
- Francesco Albani
- student
- Carlo Cignani
- Commons gallery
- Francesco Albani
- has works in the collection
- Palazzo Fava
- nickname
- Anacreon of Painters
- ethnic group
- Italians
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Francesco Albani, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Venus
Krst Kristov
Ecce Homo
Resting Venus
Baptism of Christ
Allegory of the Passion of Christ
The Robbery of Europe
Ascension of Mary
Portrait of a Woman
Triumphal of Neptune and the Amphitrite
Amorett dance at the Proserpinas
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Encyclopedic overview
Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of Albanian descent who was active in Bologna (1591–1600; 1609; 1610; 1618–1622), Rome (1600–1609; 1610–1617; 1623–1625), Viterbo (1609–1610), Mantua (1621–1622) and Florence (1633). He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci’s classicism. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures, the lyrical qualities of which earned him the soubriquet ‘the Anacreon of painters’.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francesco Albani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.