Domenico Olivieri or Olivero (1679 in Turin – 1755 in Turin) was an Italian painter, who painted genre scenes influenced by the Flemish Bamboccianti painters.
Biography
He particularly excelled in painting droll scenes, fairs, and merry-makings. In the gallery of the court of Turin were two of his best pictures, in one of which he has represented a fair, with an immense assemblage of figures, of quack-doctors, and groups of peasants, sporting or quarrelling.
He also painted The Miracle of the Sacrament for the sacristy of the church of Corpus Domini, Turin.
Luigi Lanzi said of Olivieri that he was born to amuse others with personal ridicule, with witty sayings, with facetious paintings. They are very famous in the collections of the Piedmont with his witty caricatures following the style of Pieter van Laer and other talented Flemish painters.
Boni says that he had a pupil, Giovanni Michele Graneri, who painted in the same style.
References
- Stefani, Guglielmo (1854). Dizionario corografico degli Stati Sardi di terra Firma (in Italian). p. 1233.
- Vanzon, Carlo Antonio (1842). Dizionario universale della lingua italiana, ed insieme di geografia ... mitologia [&c.]. Preceduto da una Esposizione grammaticale ragionata della lingua italiana. [1 pt. With] Appendice, ossiano Giunte e correzioni. [12 pt. Wanting the title-leaf of vol. 4 of the dictionary] (in Italian). p. 783.
- ^ Boni, Filippo De (1840). Biografia degli artisti: Volume unico (in Italian). Company' tipi del Gondoliere.
- Storia pittorica dell'Italia dal risorgimento delle belle arti, by Luigi Antonio Lanzi, page 58.
Attribution:
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Olivieri, Domenico". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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