Domenico Ambrogi

Two women symbolising Painting and Sculpture, etching, exact date unknown. In the collection of the British Museum

Domenico Ambrogi (c. 1600-after 1678) was an Italian painter from Bologna of the 17th century, also called Menichino or Menghino del Brizio, after a master. Mainly known as a decorator of quadratura. He is also known as Domenico degli Ambrogi. He trained with Francesco Brizio, Bernardino Baldi (painter)(active 1599-1615), and Denys Calvaert^[1] and one of his pupils was Giovanni Antonio Fumiani.

References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. 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. p. 6.
• Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini (1843). Vite de Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi. Tipografia Governativa alla Volpe. pp. 95–97.

1. Getty ULAN entry