Giuliano Traballesi

1727 – 1812

Italian painter and engraver. He trained in Florence with Agostino Veracini (1689-1762) and Francesco Conti (1681-1760), and studied architecture and stage design under Antonio Galli-Bibiena. His earliest known painting is a fresco of 1758: Heavenly Father in Glory in the Dominican church in Livorno. He enriched his art by the study of Correggio 's works in Parma, and also those of Bolognese painters, making engravings (1764-67) after paintings by Guido Reni, Agostino Carracci, Annibale Carracci, Guercino and others. These were praised in 1765 by Pierre-Jean Mariette and were later collected in an album entitled Venticinque quadri ai maestri eccellenti incisi da Giuliano Traballesi (Milan, 1796). In 1775, he became professor of painting at the Brera Academy of Milan, where his style reflected the reigning Neoclassicism of Mengs. He painted in Milan for the residences of the Busca and Serbelloni. Among his pupils at the academy was Andrea Appiani. His drawings for the collection of portraits of illustrious Florentines was engraved by Giuseppe Allegrini and others.

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