Leonardo Sconzani

Leonardo Sconzani (1695-1735) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.

Biography

He was born and active in Bologna. He studied there as a pupil of Raimondo Manzini. Sconzani is known mainly as a decorative painter and as an illuminator of texts, in which he painted floral and birds as decoration.[1] He painted an allegory depicting the Marriage of Prince Karl of Bavaria and Archduchess Maria Amalia d’Austria (1722).[2]

References

  1. ↑ Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi, by Girolamo Bianconi; Annesio Nobili, Bologna, 1820, page 544.
  2. ↑ This depiction alludes to a scene of the Opera Ormisda, by Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, which was presented at the Malvezzi theater, during the princes' wedding festivities (Anziani consoli, Insignia, vol. XIII, c. 35a)
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