Giuseppe Alabardi Explained

Giuseppe Alabardi (also called il Schioppi) was an Italian painter, active in Venice around the year 1600. Some works in the Oratory of San Nicola da Tolentino in Vicenza are attributed him. He painted architectural landscapes and quadratura^[1] and is recorded as having painted scenery for productions of operas in Venice.^[2]

References

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1886. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . I.: A-K . Robert Edmund Graves . 10 . George Bell and Sons. London .
• Video on restoration of Oratory of San Nicola.

Notes and References

1. Book: Boni, Filippo de'. 1852. Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione.. 9 . Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. Venice; Googlebooks .
2. Book: Rosand. Ellen. Opera in seventeenth-century Venice the creation of a genre. 1991. University of California Press. Berkeley, Calif.. 9780520934566. 73.