Alessandro Tiarini
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Alessandro Tiarini (1577- February 8, 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
He was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt, and early on they tried, unsuccessfully to guide him towards becoming a cleric[1]. He was the godson of painter Lavinia Fontana and initially apprenticed in Bologna under her father Prospero Fontana, and subsequently with Bartolomeo Cesi. He was not inducted into the Carracci Academy. Forced to flee from Bologna, due to what Malvasia and Amorini describe as a quarrel leading to the death of the other party. He moved to Florence, where he painted frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (1599-1606) including an Adoration of the Shepherds (Pitti Palace). In Florence, he mainly worked under Domenico Passignano, but also Bernardino Poccetti and Jacopo da Empoli.
He was lured back to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, by Ludovico Carracci. His Grieving over a dead Jesus is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna. His masterpiece there was a series of frescoes for the Brami Chapel in the sanctuary of Basilica della Ghiara. He also painted in Cremona (1623-24) and in Parma, where he painted the Story of Gerusalemme Liberata in the Farnese Palazzo del Giardino in 1628. He also painted the Raising of cross for the Oratorio della Buona Morte in Reggio, now present in the Galleria Estense of Modena.
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- Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 538-542.
