Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari

Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari (1735 - 1787) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Parma in a late-Baroque and early Neoclassical style.[1]

He was born in Sissa in the Province of Parma; his father, Paolo, was a painter in the Ducal court. Pietro studied under Giuseppe Peroni,[2] and later in the Academy of Fine Arts at Parma under Giuseppe Baldrighi.[3]

References
  1. 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 63.
  2. encyclopedia Treccani, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 46 (1996) by Vincenza Maugeri.
  3. The History of Painting in Italy: The schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan, by Luigi Lanzi, page 141-142.


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