- Felice Torelli
Felice Torelli (1667 - 1748) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque style, active mainly inBologna .He was born to a family of artists in
Verona , including his brother,Giuseppe Torelli , a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his sonStefano Torelli and wifeLucia Casalini (1677-1762) were painters. His wife mainly painted portraits. Felice was initially apprenticed toSanti Prunati in Verona, then toGiovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. In 1710, Torelli was one of the founders of the "Accademia Clementina " in Bologna, and during his time there,Giuseppe Maria Crespi was a member. Torelli’s pupils at the academy included the two brothersUbaldo Gandolfi andGaetano Gandolfi .He painted a "Martyrdom of St. Maurelius" for the
Cathedral of Ferrara . He painted a"St. Vincent in the act of curing a lunatic woman" for the church of the Dominicans inFaenza . Other altarpieces were painted for churches inRome ,Turin ,Milan , and other cities of Italy.References
* [http://www.wga.hu/bio/t/torelli/biograph.html| Web gallery of Art Biography]
* [http://www.artnet.com/library/08/0856/T085645.asp| Grove Encyclopedia of Art Biography.]
* [http://www.wga.hu/html/t/torelli/virgin_c.html| Virgin with child and Saints]
* [http://www.groveart.com/ Dwight C. Miller: "Felice Torelli"] (subscription version of Grove Art Online). Oxford University Press.
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 579-580| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=
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