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Martinelli, Vincenzo
(b Bologna, 20 June 1737; d Bologna, 20 April 1807). Italian painter. He was a nephew and pupil of Carlo Lodi (1701–65), and a member of the Accademia Clementina from 1759 to 1762. He worked for a long period with his uncle, and on the latter’s death inherited the workshop and continued the tradition of decorative landscape painting. His works are more naturalistic, particularly in their treatment of light and shade, than Lodi’s arcadian scenes, as is evident in the Landscape with the Villa Boschi (1766; Bologna, Villa La Sampiera, see Roli, pl. 374a). Similar characteristics inform the three tempera paintings, with figures by Nicola Bertuzzi, in the Casino Marsigli, Bologna. In 1769 Martinelli was in Parma, on the occasion of Ferdinando di Borbone’s marriage to Amalia d’Austria, and subsequently visited several European capital cities, producing a vast number of decorative landscapes, often in collaboration with figure painters such as Domenico Pedrini (1728–1800), Filippo Pedrini, Emilio Manfredi (d 1801) and Gaspare Bigari. He also worked as a scene painter for theatres in Bologna.
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