Alessandro Mari was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

While born in Turin

Turin

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, Mari soon left to train under Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola

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, next under Pietro Liberi

Pietro Liberi

Pietro Liberi was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Venice and the Veneto.Liberi was born in Padua, his earliest training was with Alessandro Varotari . He traveled extensively in Italy. During a voyage to Istanbul, he was captured into bondage for 8 months by pirates from...

, and again under Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

; always uniting the practice of painting with the cultivation of poetry. He ultimately became a celebrated copyist, and a successful designer of capricci and symbolical representations, by which he established a reputation in Milan

Milan

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, and afterwards in Spain. He died in Madrid

Madrid

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