Michele Marieschi
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Michele Marieschi (1710-1743) (also known as Michiel) was a painter of landscapes or vistas (a vedutisti) who painted veduta mostly in Venice. Less well-known than his famous contemporary vedutisti, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi. He was the son of an engraver (or a wood-cutter[1]. Prior to 1735, he was said to have been in Germany. Between 1735 and 1741 he was registered in the Fraglia de' Pittori, guild of painters. One of his sponsors at Marieschi's wedding was Gaspare Diziani. Initially painting capricci, later his paintings were realistic landscapes. One of his patrons was noted collector, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, who bought at least two canvases from the painter for 50 and 55 gold sequins respectively. Marieschi published a set of engravings of Venice, titled Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus that represents his only work of certain attribution. It contains a portrait by Angelo Trevisani.
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- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750", Pelican History of Art, 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, p501.
- Links, J. G. (1977). Canaletto and his Patrons. Paul Elek Ltd, London, p55-56.
- Biography
- ^ J.G. Links, p 55
