(b Cave, nr Rome, fl 1745–71). Italian painter. He studied in Rome with the Emilian painter Bonaventura Lamberti and was present in the Palazzo Farnese workshop until 1745. His works are documented only from 1749, when he worked for the oblates of S Maria Liberatrice in Rome and collaborated with Sebastiano Ceccarini in painting frescoes showing God the Father with St Michael and Music-making Angels in the choir of the monastery of Tor de’ Specchi (in situ). In 1753 he painted the notable cycle of canvases in the church of S Carlo at Cave, with scenes from the Life of St Joseph of Copertino. His Vision of St Anthony of Padua (1756; Rome, S Dorotea) reveals the influence of his Bolognese classicist training, enriched by a Roman grace, resulting in a style that falls between Agostino Masucci and Carlo Costanzi. In 1756 he also painted an Assumption of the Virgin, for the church of the Palazzo di Valmontone, commissioned by the Princess Olimpia Caffarelli Pamphili; this work is courtly in style, reminiscent of Annibale Carracci and Carlo Maratti. There followed, in 1759, an interesting Allegory of the Reign of Charles III of Spain (Rome, Lemme priv. col.), influenced by Lamberti’s teaching.

• Gramiccia, Lorenzo
  • Lamberti, Bonaventura