Alessandro Magnasco

Feb 4, 1667 - Mar 12, 1749

Alessandro Magnasco, 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.

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Praying Monks

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The singing lesson

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san carlo borromeo riceve gli oblati

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Trattenimento in un giardino d'Albaro

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Observant Friars in a Refectory

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Dissipation and Ignorance destroy the Arts and Sciences

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Arrivo e interrogatorio dei galeotti nel carcere di Genova

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Entombment of a Soldier

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Landscape with Washerwomen

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