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TRAVERSI, Gaspare

TRAVERSI, Gaspare The Drawing Lesson oil painting on canvas
The Drawing Lesson
Painting ID::  40566
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TRAVERSI, Gaspare The Drawing Lesson oil painting on canvas



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  TRAVERSI, Gaspare
  Italian Painter, ca.1722-1770 Italian painter. He was apprenticed to the elderly Francesco Solimena, whose late style, a reinterpretation of the Baroque art of Mattia Preti, influenced his earliest works. At the same time he studied the naturalist painters of the 17th century: Preti himself, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, Jusepe de Ribera, Filippo Vitale and Francesco Fracanzano. Classical art also attracted him, and in the 1740s he began to make journeys to Rome to study the influential works of Bolognese and Roman classicism: paintings by Guido Reni, Guercino and the Carracci family, and by Carlo Maratti. During one of these visits he copied two pictures by Maratti, then in S Isidoro, Rome: the Flagellation and a Crucifixion . In the following year he was in Naples; three canvases of scenes from the Life of the Virgin (Naples, S Maria dell'Aiuto), one of which is signed and dated 1749
  The Drawing Lesson
  mk156 c.175 Oil on canvas 161.7x204cm

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