Federico Cervelli

Federico Cervelli (1625 —before 1700) was an Italian painter, born in Milan, who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty. He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Lucchese) [cite book | first= James R.|last= Hobbes| year=1849| title= Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur| editor = | pages= page 49 | publisher= T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:picture+intitle:collector's | authorlink= ] . His first documented and dated painting is a "Sacrifice of Noah" (1678) conserved at Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. A "Massacre of the Innocents" by Cervelli in San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and a "Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro", coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956 [Nicola Ivanoff, "A Sebastiano Ricci 'Rape of the Sabines'" "The Burlington Magazine" 98 No. 634 (January 1956), pp. 18-21.] His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by Pietro Liberi and Sebastiano Mazzoni.

Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur Antonio Maria Zanetti, [Zanetti, "Della pittura veneziana e delle opere pubbliche de' veneziani maestri" (Venice, 1771).] was Sebastiano Ricci.

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*R. Palluchini, "La pittura Veneziana del Seicento," Milan, 1981, pp. 297-298.