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Ferrari, de’.
Italian family of artists. (1) Gregorio de’ Ferrari and his father-in-law, Domenico Piola, were responsible for decorating some of the largest and most prestigious palaces and churches in Genoa in the 1670s and 1680s—a successful partnership that continued with their sons (2) Lorenzo de’ Ferrari and Paolo Gerolamo Piola. Another of Gregorio’s sons, Giuseppe de’ Ferrari (d 1768), was a restorer and also a painter, though less renowned than his father and brother. A signed canvas by him of the Virgin and Child Adored by SS Mauro and Sebastian (Calizzano, S Mauro) is a pastiche of the sweet putti and sfumato style of Gregorio and of the more smoothly polished and academic figures of Lorenzo. The following members have entries:
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