Andrea Toresani

Andrea Torresani (c. 1727–1760) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Brescia, Milan, and Venice.

Died at age 33 years from a stroke. He was said to have trained with a mediocre painter by the name of Antonio Aureggio in Brescia. Moved to Venice, where he became known as an excellent painter of landscapes, portraits, and draughtsman. He is known to have penned landscapes for Zaccharia Sagredo and Pietro Guarienti.

An engraver of the same name was active in Venice 1480-1520.[1]

References
  1. Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 377.
  • Madrazo, Pedro de (1872). Catálogo Descriptivo e Histórico del Museo del Prado de Madrid (Parte Primera: Escuelas Italianas y Españolas). Calle del Duque de Osuna #3; Original from Oxford University, Digitized May 1, 2007: M. Rivadeneyra. p. 279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 580.
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