Donato Creti (1671 – 1749)

• Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
• Donato Creti was born in Cremona to the quadraturist painter Giuseppe and Anna Caffi from Cremona.
• His father place him in the workshop of the painter Giorgio Raparini.
• Having produced a favorable impression on the painter Gerolamo Blacks known as Boccia, he persuaded Donato's father to place him in the prestigious Accademia del Nudo.
• At the beginning of the eighteenth century Creti was in Venice in the company of Pietro Ercole Fava.
• Many of Creti's drawings and paintings bear on the back the notes of Count Fava, who lovingly inventoried and dated the works that Donato produced.
• The first painting depicting a Boy with two candles in his hand, bearing on the back the inscription "1688 - Donato Cretti fece. A.FA.".
  • In 1713 he married Francesca Zani, who died six years later, leaving the painter with three children. 

• From 1711 Creti produced eight paintings depicting the Observation of a Star. 

• Donato Creti was appointed prince of the Clementine Academy in 1728.

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