Antonio Zanchi

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Paintings

An allegory of Time

Penitent Magdalene

The Family of Darius before Alexander

Tiresias blinded by Hera turned in a soothsayer by Zeus

Antonio Zanchi (1631–1722) was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice. He was born in Este and trained with Francesco Ruschi [1]. His masterpiece was the canvas on the Plague of Venice painted for the Scuola di San Rocco. He also painted a number of canvases in the Venetian church of Santa Maria del Giglio. Among his pupils were Francesco Trevisani and Antonio Molinari.See "Nero with the Corpse of his mother Agrippina" illustrated re the critique of Robert Harris's book "The first ladies of Rome..." in The Sunday Times, 1 viii 2010

Notes and references

1. ^ French Wikipedia entry for Francesco Ruschi.

* Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum. ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 204. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters.

Artist from Italy

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