Aureliano Milani was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-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...

 period, active in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 and Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

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He was a pupil of Cesare Gennari

Cesare Gennari

Cesare Gennari was an Italian painter of Baroque period. His Saint Mary Magdalene is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento...

 and Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

 in Bologna, although he also adhered to a style derived from the Carracci

Accademia degli Incamminati

The Accademia degli Incamminati was one of the first art academies in Italy. It was originally created around 1580 in Bologna as the Accademia dei Desiderosi and was sometimes known as the Accademia dei Carracci after its founders the Carracci cousins , with Annibale heading the institution thanks...

. He took up his residence in Rome, being ill able to support a family of ten children at Bologna. He painted a Beheaded St. John the Baptist for the church of the Bergamaschi in Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

. In Rome, he abounded with commissions, and was promoted with Domenico Maria Muratori

Domenico Maria Muratori

Domenico Maria Muratori was an Italian painter.Muratori was a Bolognese painter who studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli. He had a daughter Teresa Scannabecchi who also became a painter. Muratori specialized in religious-themed works. He produced frescoes for the second chapel of San Francesco a Ripa....

 and Donato Creti

Donato Creti

Donato Creti was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal...

. Aureliano also taught during many years at Bologna, and among other pupils of his were Giuseppe Marchesi

Giuseppe Marchesi

Giuseppe Marchesi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was also known as il Sansone. He was a pupil of the painter Marcantonio Franceschini and Aureliano Milani....

 (called il Sansone) and Antonio Gionima

Antonio Gionima

Antonio Gionima was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.Born in Padua, where his father Simone Gionima and grandfather had been artists, he was first educated by his father, then by Aureliano Milani, and then by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. He died young, leaving works highly prized at...

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