Giuseppe Melani

Giuseppe Melani (13 August 1673 - 7 November 1747) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa.^[1]

Biography

His father, Pietro Milani, was a painter. He initially apprenticed with Camillo Gabrielli, and then became was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, who was a trainee of Pietro da Cortona. For the Pisa Cathedral, he painted a Death of San Ranieri. He also painted figures for architectural frescoes, such as the vault of San Matteo (c. 1720) in Pisa, along with his brother Francesco Melani (also an architect, April 7, 1675 -August 21, 1742).^[2]

References

1. Memorie istoriche di più uomini illustri pisani, Volume 4, by M.Angelo Fabroni. Pisa, 1792, page 381.
2. Fabroni, page 381.

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