Leonardo Sconzani Explained

Leonardo Sconzani (1695–1735) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

He was born and active in Bologna. He studied there as a pupil of Raimondo Manzini (1668–1744). Sconzani is known mainly as a decorative painter and as an illuminator of texts, in which he painted floral and birds as decoration.^[1] He painted an allegory depicting the Marriage of Prince Karl of Bavaria and Archduchess Maria Amalia d’Austria (1722).^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=XHxBAQAAMAAJ Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
2. This depiction alludes to a scene of the Opera Ormisda, by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, which was presented at the Malvezzi theater, during the princes' wedding festivities (Anziani consoli, Insignia, vol. XIII, c. 35a)http://www.archiviodistatobologna.it/it/bologna/attivit%C3%A0/mostre-eventi/l%C3%A0-ci-darem-mano-teatri-musica-nei-documenti-dell%E2%80%99/01-carnevali