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 Alessandro Magnasco (1667 – 1749)

• Also known as il Lissandrino.
• Was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa.
• He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.
• Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.
• Born in Genoa to a minor artist, Stefano Magnasco.
• He apprenticed with Valerio Castello, and finally with Filippo Abbiati  in Milan.
• Magnasco's work may have influenced Marco Ricci, Giuseppe Bazzani, Francesco Maffei, and the famed painters de tocco (by touch) Gianantonio and Francesco Guardi in Venice.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Alessandro Magnasco, Landscape with the Temptation of Christ, circa 1715.
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