Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco
Self-portrait
Born(1667-02-04)February 4, 1667
Genoa, Republic of Genoa
DiedMarch 12, 1749(1749-03-12) (aged 82)
Genoa, Republic of Genoa
NationalityItalian
EducationValerio Castello, Filippo Abbiati
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.[1]

  1. ^ Alessandro Magnasco, called il Lissandrino (Genoa 1667-1749), Saint Joseph's dream at Christie's