Odoardo Perini

Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona.

Jupiter and Semele, Verona, Castelvecchio
Odoardo Perini: Study of Hand

Biography

He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino. He then trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna. He was described by Carlo Ridolfi as having a ‘’very strange brain’’[1] with his paintings equally strange.

The Fondazione Cariverona has a Perini canvas depicting Tancredo al campo crociato piange la morte di Clorinda (Tancred in the Crusader camp mourns the death of Clorinda), a work once part of series of depictions of Gerusalemma Liberata owned by Count Ercole Giusti in his Veronese palace. The series included a work each by Perini, Carl Loth, Antonio Bellucci, Antonio Fumiani, Gregorio Lazzarini, and Simone Brentana. Also on display in the same hall were two mythological subjects by also by Loth, and five landscapes by Giovanni Ruggieri.[2]

References
  • Zannandreis, Diego (1891). Giuseppe Biadego (ed.). Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi. Stabilimento Tipo-Litografico G. Franchini, Verona; Digitized by Googlebooks from University of California copy on Feb 22, 2007. pp. 330–331.
  • Monumenti storici: Nuova serie, Volume 4, Part 2. Googlebooks. Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie. 1890. p. 37.CS1 maint: others (link)
  1. ’’Questo pittore fu di un cervello bizzarro assai’’, Ridolfi, page 37.
  2. Louis Dorigny (1654-1742), Un pittore della corte francese a Verona, monograph for 2003 exhibition at Museo de Castelvecchio, Verona, curated by Paola and Giorgio Marini, pageds 123-125.


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