Felice Torelli 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...

 style, active mainly in Bologna

Bologna

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He was born to a family of artists in Verona

Verona

Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer.Torelli is most remembered for his contributions to the development of the instrumental concerto Giuseppe Torelli (April 22, 1658 – February 8, 1709) was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer.Torelli is most...

, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son, Stefano Torelli

Stefano Torelli

Stefano Torelli was an Italian painter. He was born in Bologna. He studied first under his father, Felice Torelli, and then under Francesco Solimena. The future King of Poland, Augustus III, brought him to Dresden in 1740, where he painted altar-pieces and ceiling decorations, many destroyed in...

, and his wife, Lucia Casalini

Lucia Casalini Torelli

Lucia Casalini Torelli was an Italian painter, active in Bologna. The wife of painter Felice Torelli , she was the mother of painter Stefano Torelli. She was born Bologna, where she trained under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.-References:* at CLARA...

 (1677-1762), were painters. His wife mainly painted portraits. Felice was initially apprenticed to Santi Prunati

Santi Prunati

Santi Prunati was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, born and mainly active in Verona.He was born to Antonio Prunati, and baptized by September 22. Originally studied with a painter by the name of Voltolino, then with Biagio Falcieri...

 in Verona, then to Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole

Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period....

 in Bologna. In 1710, Torelli was one of the founders of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, and during his time there, Giuseppe Maria Crespi was a member. Torelli’s pupils at the academy included the two brothers Ubaldo Gandolfi

Ubaldo Gandolfi

Ubaldo Gandolfi was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, mainly active in and near Bologna.He was born in San Matteo della Decima and enrolled by the age of 17 at the Clementine Academy, where he apprenticed with Ercole Graziani the Younger, Felice Torelli, and Ercole Lelli...

 and Gaetano Gandolfi

Gaetano Gandolfi

Gaetano Gandolfi was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and early Neoclassic period, active in Bologna.Gaetano was born in San Matteo della Decima, near Bologna, to a family of artists. Ubaldo Gandolfi was his brother, Mauro Gandolfi was his son, and Democrito Gandolfi was his grandson...

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He painted a Martyrdom of St. Maurelius for the Cathedral of Ferrara. He painted St. Vincent in the act of curing a lunatic woman for the church of the Dominicans in Faenza

Faenza

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. Other altarpieces were painted for churches in Rome

Rome

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, Turin

Turin

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, Milan

Milan

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, and other cities in Italy.