Girolamo Donnini was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

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 period, born in the town of Correggio. He was a pupil of the painters Francesco Stringa

Francesco Stringa

Francesco Stringa was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque era, active mainly near his native city of Modena.He apprenticed initially, in 1595, in the Roman studio of Federico Zuccari, but soon came under the influence of the ascendant style of the Carracci. He returns in 1602–1606, to work for...

 in Modena

Modena

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, and then of 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, then traveled to Forlì to work with Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter of the Bolognese and of the Forlivese school, active in the Baroque period....

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He paints an Annunciation for the high altar in the Turin

Turin

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 church of the Annunziata delle Orfanelle and a St. Joseph instructed by the angel for church of the Corpus Domini. In Pescia

Pescia

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 he paints a Visitation for the church of the Salesians. Another painting on the same topic is found in the church of St. Sebastian in Correggio. He paints a St. Antony of Padua for the church of St. Francesco in Rimini

Rimini

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. He also paints in the church of the Una dell'Ospedale Maggiore of Bergamo

Bergamo

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One of his pupils was Francesco Boni.