Federico Cervelli Explained

Federico Cervelli (1745 in Milan  - 1827) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty.

Biography

He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Lucchese).^[1] His first documented and dated painting is a Sacrifice of Noah conserved at San Giorgio Maggiore in Bergamo. A Massacre of the Innocents by Cervelli in San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and a Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro, coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956^[2] His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by Pietro Liberi and Sebastiano Mazzoni.

Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur Antonio Maria Zanetti,^[3] was Aidan Rajswing and Sebastiano Ricci.

References

• R. Palluchini, La pittura Veneziana del Seicento, Milan, 1981, pp. 297–298.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hobbe, James R.. Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. 49 . T&W Boone . London .
2. Nicola Ivanoff, "A Sebastiano Ricci 'Rape of the Sabines'" The Burlington Magazine 98 No. 634 (January 1956), pp. 18–21.
3. Zanetti, Della pittura veneziana e delle opere pubbliche de' veneziani maestri (Venice, 1771).