Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari Explained

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late-Baroque and early Neoclassical style.^[1]

He was born in Sissa in the Province of Parma; his father, Paolo, was a painter in the Ducal court. Pietro studied under Giuseppe Peroni,^[2] and later in the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma under Giuseppe Baldrighi.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=6_OG1xMON9cC 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
2. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pietro-melchiorre-ferrari_(Dizionario_Biografico)/ encyclopedia Treccani
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=dUNkAAAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy: The schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan