Donato Creti
Italian painter (1671–1749) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749)[1] was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.
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Donato Creti | |
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Born | 1671 |
Died | 1749 |
Nationality | Italian |
Education | Lorenzo Pasinelli |
Known for | Painting |
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Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger. Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.[2]