Alessandro Magnasco

Italian · 1667–1749

Baroque

He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.

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The Choristers — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

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museum holds them: 1museum holds them
life: 1667–1749life
movement: Baroquemovement

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The Choristers

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Who Alessandro Magnasco was

Alessandro Magnasco, also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.

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