Fabio della Cornia

Fabio Della Cornia, portrait of Leonora Baroni (1611–1670)

Fabio della Cornia (1600–1643) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque. He was born in Perugia to the family of the Dukes of Castiglione del Lago (Lanzi states they were Dukes of Cornia, descendants of the condottiere Ascanio della Corgna), near Livorno.^[1] He attended the artists' academy of Stefano Amadei.

Sources

↑ The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine arts, (1852) by Luigi Lanzi, translated by Thomas Roscoe, page 467

Sources

Boni, Filippo de' (1852). Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione. Venice; Googlebooks: Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. p. 228.

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