Odoardo Perini

Odoardo Perini (5 April 1671 – 29 December 1757) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona.

Biography

He first apprenticed with Andrea Voltolino. He then trained in Bologna under Giovanni Maria Viani. He painted a series of canvases of classical stories for the Count Ercole Giusti. He painted some religious canvases for the Colombini in Bologna. He was described by Carlo Ridolfi as having a ‘’very strange brain’’^[1] with his paintings equally strange.

References

• Zannandreis, Diego (1891). Giuseppe Biadego, ed. Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi. Stabilimento Tipo-Litografico G. Franchini, Verona; Digitized by Googlebooks from University of California copy on Feb 22, 2007. pp. 330–331.
• Monumenti storici: Nuova serie, Volume 4, Part 2. Googlebooks. Deputazione di storia patria per le Venezie. p. 37.

1. ’’Questo pittore fu di un cervello bizzarro assai’’, Ridolfi, page 37.