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Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Born 1578 in Bologna, he had a father who was a silk merchant and who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he met Guido Reni. Soon he followed Reni to the so-called "Academy" run by the Carracci family: Annibale, Agostino, and Ludovico. This studio fostered (showing 500 of 8463 characters). |
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