Alessandro Tiarini (1577-1668), Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School (painting). He was born in Bologna and studied under such as Prospero Fontana and subsequently Bartolomeo Cesi. He painted frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces in Florence (1599-1606) and Bologna. In Florence, he worked with Domenico Passignano, Bernardino Poccetti, and Jacopo da Empoli. Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold May 28 - Publication of the Bergen Book, better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings. ... // Events January - The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint. ... The Bolognese School of painting flourished in Bologna, Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. ... Bologna (pronounced , from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... Prospero Fontana (1512 - 1597), Italian painter, was born in Bologna, and became a pupil of Innocenzo da Imola. ... Fresco by Dionisius representing Saint Nicholas. ... Galileo portrait by Passignano Domenico Passignano (born Cresti or Crespi) (Florence 1559 - 1636) was an Italian painter. ...

He was lured back to Bologna and Reggio Emilia, by Ludovico Carracci, and there painted a series of frescoes for the Brami Chapel in the sanctuary of Santa Maria dell Ghiara. Bargellini Madonna (1588) Oil on canvas, 282 x 188 cm Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna Ludovico Carracci (April 21, 1555 – November 13, 1619) was an Italian painter, etcher, and printmaker who helped reinvigorate Italian art after Mannerism by founding an academy in Bologna in 1585. ...

Anthology of Works

External links

• Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 538-542.