Federico Cervelli was an Italian

Italy

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 painter, born in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, who established his workshop in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

 at the age of about thirty. He initially trained with Pietro Ricci (il Lucchese). His first documented and dated painting is a Sacrifice of Noah (1678) conserved at Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo

Bergamo

Bergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...

. A Massacre of the Innocents by Cervelli in San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore

San Giorgio Maggiore is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The isle is surrounded by Canale della Grazia, Canale della Giudecca, Saint Mark Basin, Canale di San Marco and the southern lagoon...

 in Venice, and a Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro, coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956 His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by 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 Sebastiano Mazzoni

Sebastiano Mazzoni

Sebastiano Mazzoni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Born in Florence, he trained in that city during 1632-33 in the studio of Baccio del Bianco. He then moved to Venice in 1648, and stayed there till his death. He painted a somewhat unusual Annunciation with a hovering ghostly angel...

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Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur Antonio Maria Zanetti

Antonio Maria Zanetti

Count Anton[io] Maria Zanetti was a Venetian artist and art critic, an engraver and connoisseur, and a collector of engraved gems both Greco-Roman and modern, which he published lavishly, in the form of A.F...

, was Aidan Rajswing and Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting.-Early years:He was born in Belluno, son...

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