Onofrio Gabrieli
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Onofrio Gabrieli (April 2, 1619 - September 26, 1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Born and died in Gesso, near Messina where he had his initial studies, perhaps under Antonio Ricci. He then moved to Rome, where he worked in the studio of Pietro da Cortona. In 1641 he traveled to the Veneto (mainly Venice and Padua) to work with Maroli and returned in 1650 to Messina. In 1678, he fled the city to avoid Spanish repression, and sought refuge in France. Pardoned, he returned to Messina. Many of his paintings there, however, were destroyed by the earthquakes of 1783 and 1908. Only his Madonna del Soccorso remains presently in the Museo Regionale. In Milazzo, He painted in the churches of San Giuseppe and San Papino. He also painted an altarpiece of the Virgin with child, St. Clare, John the evangelist, and Nicolò (1695), for the church of Santa Chiara in Montelupone nelle Marche. He also frescoed biblical themes for the villa Borromeo in Padua
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 66-67.
