• Was an Italian painter.
• Amorosi was born in Comunanza, then part of the Papal States.
• In 1668, he moved to Rome.
• He painted genre scenes similar to those of the Bamboccianti.
• He enter Giuseppe Ghezzi`s workshop to remain there for 11 years.
• Around 1690 he became an independent painter.
• His first work, signed and dated 1690, was the Portrait of the child Filippo Ricci, now kept in the Weitzner private collection in New York.
• In 1699 he frescoed the Palazzo comunale of Civitavecchia with Pope Innocent III receiving the Magistrates of the city and with the Madonna and San Fermo, destroyed in 1944.
• Amorosi met and became friends with his future biographer and art historian Leone Pascoli.
• His popular scenes remained a fundamental component of his artistic activity until his death.
• In addition to genre scenes, he painted sacred themes, such as can be found in altarpieces in Rome.
• According to Pascoli, Amorosi was also a skilled copyist of Renaissance artists and a restorer.
• His son Filippo also collaborated in his father's workshop and was a painter of genre scenes.
