(b Rome, 1668 or 1670; d Ravenna, 13 July 1740). Italian painter. The date of his birth is unsure, and could be 1668 rather than 1670, the date traditionally given by his biographers. However, the inscription on the back of a Self-portrait (Vienna, Homme priv. col., see Stud. & Skiz. Gemäldeknd., v and vi, 1919, pp. 63–5, fig. xix), probably not in the artist’s hand but certainly from an early date, seems to confirm the year of the painter’s birth as 1670: Arcangelus Resanus pictor celeberrimus pinxit se ipsum anno 1724, aetatis suae 54. He studied first under the little-known Abruzzese Giovanni Battista Buoncuore (1643–99); then he left his native Rome and at the age of 19 moved to Bologna, then to Forlì and later to Ravenna. He worked chiefly in Emilia and in Romagna. Indeed, his canvases reveal a highly cultivated figurative style, linked to the Roman tradition of the BAMBOCCIANTI and also to elements of the Lombard pictorial style, in particular the work of Giacomo Ceruti, and to certain refinements in the work of the Bolognese painter Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Moreover, some paintings by Resani, such as the Peasant Girl (Faenza, priv. col.), bear similarities to the work of the painter from the Marches, Antonio Amorosi, who was a pupil of Giuseppe Ghezzi.