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Alessandro Magnasco
Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco

Italian, 1667-1749
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Alessandro Magnasco, 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 (1640–1715) in Milan. Except for 1703–09 (or 1709–11) when working in Florence for the Grand Duke Cosimo III, Magnasco labored in Milan until 1735, when he returned to his native Genoa. Magnasco often collaborated with placing figures in the landscapes of Tavella and the ruins of Clemente Spera in Milan.

After 1710, Magnasco excelled in producing small, hypochromatic canvases with eerie and gloomy landscapes and ruins, or crowded interiors peopled with small, often lambent and cartoonishly elongated characters. The people in his paintings were often nearly liquefacted beggars dressed in tatters, rendered in flickering, nervous brushstrokes. Often they deal with unusual subjects such as synagogue services, Quaker meetings, robbers' gatherings, catastrophes, and interrogations by the Inquisition. His sentiments regarding these subjects are generally unclear.

A century later he would be described as a "romantic painter: who painted with candid touches, and ingenious expressiveness, little figures in Gothic churches; or in solitude, hermits and monks; or scoundrels assembled in town squares; soldiers in barracks".

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Massacre of the Innocents

Massacre of the Innocents (1715 - 1740)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Worshippers at a Shrine  Obje

Worshippers at a Shrine  Obje (between 1655 and 1749)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Landscape with two Repentant Monks

Landscape with two Repentant Monks

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
A Monk’s Burial

A Monk’s Burial

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
The Alchemist

The Alchemist

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Noli Me Tangere

Noli Me Tangere (1705–1710)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Hermits (Anachorets)

Hermits (Anachorets) (1712-1715)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Washerwomen and Woodcutters

Washerwomen and Woodcutters (1712-1715)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
The Artist’s Studio

The Artist’s Studio (circa 1700)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Landscape with the Temptation of Christ (circa 1715)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Carthusian Monks in a Landscape

Carthusian Monks in a Landscape (1700 - 1749)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Landscape with Saint Bruno

Landscape with Saint Bruno (1700 - 1749)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Cardplayers By a Fire

Cardplayers By a Fire

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
The Raising of Lazarus

The Raising of Lazarus (1715 - 1740)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Three Camaldolese Monks in Ecstatic Prayer

Three Camaldolese Monks in Ecstatic Prayer (1710 - 1740)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Three Camaldolese Monks in Meditative Prayer

Three Camaldolese Monks in Meditative Prayer (1710 - 1740)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Brutal Interrogation

Brutal Interrogation (1727-1730)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Hermit in the Desert

Hermit in the Desert (1700-1740)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Landscape with Figures

Landscape with Figures (1710-1720)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Landscape with Washerwoman

Landscape with Washerwoman (1710-1720)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Landscape with Figures

Landscape with Figures (About 1713)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Landscape
Praying Monks

Praying Monks (18th century)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Saint Jerome in a Landscape

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
The Synagogue

The Synagogue (1725-35)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
The Tame Magpie

The Tame Magpie (ca. 1707–8)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1705–1710)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Religion
Bacchanale

Bacchanale (About 1720–1730)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Mythology
The Triumph of Venus

The Triumph of Venus (1720–1730)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Mythology
The Choristers

The Choristers (c. 1740-1745)

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
Singing Birds

Singing Birds

Alessandro Magnasco (Italian, 1667-1749)
Figurative
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