Giacomo Francesco Cipper
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Giacomo Francesco Cipper, also known as Il Todeschini, (Feldkirch
Feldkirch, Vorarlberg
- Schools :* Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Feldkirch * Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Feldkirch* Bundesoberstufenrealgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium Schillerstrasse...

, 1664 - Milan
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, 1736) was a German painter active in Milan from 1696 to 1736.

Biography

Of German origin, he was active in Milan in the first half of the 18th century. Fertile painter of scenes of kind of formulation caravaggesca
Caravaggio
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, his first attributed work is dated 1700; he operated in Lombardia and in Veneto
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 ( Hunters and greengrocers , Modena
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, Gallery Campori; Farmers' family , Venice
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, Galleries of the academy). Subsequently the artist, perhaps under the influence of the Cerruti
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 (some of whose works were once attributed to Cipper), to the scrupulous surrender of the detail it replaced a less illustrative vision, more sensitive to the games of light.

His last known work is Self-portrait (1736, Hampton Court).

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