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Giorgioli, Francesco Antonio
(b Viggiù, Italy, ?1655; d Meride, Ticino, 15 Nov 1725). Swiss painter of Italian birth. He came from a family of sculptors in wood, and his early training was probably as a sculptor. He was in Milan in 1678 and in Rome from 1680 to 1683. He was active in Switzerland in 1686, working on ceiling frescoes for the chapel of S Carlo Borromeo near Lostallo. From 1687 to 1689 he travelled, via Venice and Vienna, to Warsaw, where he worked as a court painter. He went to Ticino in 1690 and stayed in Eisenberg, Coburg and Weimar in Germany from 1691 to 1692. By c. 1700 he had become a leading painter of frescoes in Switzerland: his skill as an illusionistic decorative artist and his ability to integrate his works into an architectural scheme were much admired.
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