Pietro Antonio Avanzini
Portrait of Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma (1679-1731)
Portrait of Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg (1670-1748), Duchess of Parma
Portrait of Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma (1678-1727)
Pietro Antonio Avanzini (Piacenza, 1656 - 1733)[1] was an Italian painter.
Biography
He was trained by Marcantonio Franceschini in Bologna, and described as a painter of little originality, often copying his master's designs[2] Among his works were some paintings in the Duomo of Piacenza, completed under his master in 1686. Also in Piacenza, for the chapel of Saint Bernardino da Siena in the church of Basilica di Santa Maria di Campagna, a Madonna and saints; and for the churches of San Giovanni in Canale, San Simone, San Protasio, and the Chiesa della Morte.[3]
References
Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 159.
Lanzi, Abate Luigi (1878). Translated by Thomas Roscoe, ed. The History of Painting in Italy: From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century Volume II. George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, London. p. 415.
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 4 (1962), entry by Andrea Emiliani.
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