Antonio Zanchi

Republic of Venice · 1631–1722

Antonio Zanchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque, active mainly in Venice, but his prolific works can also be seen in Padova, Treviso, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Loreto, Brescia, Milano, and Bergamo, as well as Bavaria. == Biography == Born in Este on 6 December 1631, he trained in Venice with Giacomo Pedrali, Matteo Ponzone and Francesco Ruschi. In his younger years he etched the frontespieces for several opera librettos, including La Statira by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. Deeply influenced by Luca Giordano and Giovan Battista Langetti, he became known in the 1660s as a prominent tenebrist and established himself as a painter of large-scale religious canvases. His first masterpiece was the canvas on the Plague of Venice painted for the Scuola di San Rocco in 1666.

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