Giacomo Alboresi 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...

 period. Born in Bologna

Bologna

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, he was a pupil of Domenico Santi and the quadratura painter Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks....

 and later worked under Angelo Michele Colonna

Angelo Michele Colonna

Angelo Michele Colonna was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna, northern and central Italy and Spain. He is sometimes referred to as Michelangelo Colonna.-Biography:...

 in Spain

Spain

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, Florence

Florence

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, and Parma

Parma

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. He married Mitelli's daughter.

Colonna and Alboresi used painters Fulgenzio Mondini, del Milani, and Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome.Born in Bologna, Canuti first trained in that city under Guido Reni, then with Guercino. He painted many ceiling and wall frescoes...

, to place figures in their backgrounds. He worked with Mondini in painting the Death and Canonization of St. Anthony of Padua for the San Petronio Basilica

San Petronio Basilica

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 at Bologna. In the church of San Giacomo Maggiore

San Giacomo Maggiore

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, he painted some subjects of perspective, in which the figures were painted by Bartolommeo Passarotti. He also worked in conjunction with Antonio Maria Pasio in the cathedral of Florence.