Santi Prunati 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...

 era, born and mainly active 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...

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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

Biagio Falcieri

Biagio Falcieri was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, although his provincial style has been described as a tired mannerism, active between Venice and Verona. Originally from the region of Trento. He studied with Pietro Liberi in Venice and returned to Verona. He painted a canvas about the...

. At age 19, he traveled to Vicenza

Vicenza

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 to paint in the choir of San Jacopo and paint an altarpiece of San Antonio for the church of S. Felice. He then traveled to Venice to work in the studio of Giovanni Carlo Loth

Johann Carl Loth

Johann Carl Loth was a German Baroque painter, born in Munich but active most of his life in Venice.-Biography:He is also called Johann Karl, Karel, Carlotto, and Carlo Lotti. According to Houbraken he was one of three grand masters of art called "Karel" Johann Carl Loth (1632 – October 6, 1698)...

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He then traveled to Bologna to paint in various churches. He also traveled to Turin

Turin

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 to paint in the palace of the Marchese de Pianezza. He also painted 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 Last Supper originally painted for St. Thomas Apostle, was found in the museum of Verona. He painted a Holy family with Saints Anne, young John the Baptist, and Donor Dal Pozzo for the apse of the church of San Lorenzo in Verona (likely copy of an earlier Raphael). His son, Michelangelo Prunati was also a painter. Among his pupils was Antonio Mela, Felice Torelli

Felice Torelli

Felice Torelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, active mainly in Bologna.He was born to a family of artists in Verona, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son, Stefano Torelli, and his wife, Lucia Casalini , were painters. His...

, Giovanni Battista Rubini (painter), and Felice Cappelletti

Felice Cappelletti

Felice Cappelletti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Verona. He trained with Santi Prunati in Verona, and painted for, among other places, the churches of S. Caterina presso Ognissanti, S. Anastasia; S. Apollonia, and S. Margherita. For the oratory of S. Simone Apostolo,...

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