Name Giuseppe Melani Period Baroque | Died 1747 | |
Giuseppe Melani (13 August 1673 - 7 November 1747) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa.
Biography
His father, Pietro Milani, was a painter. 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 (also an architect, April 7, 1675 -August 21, 1742).
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