Lorenzo De Ferrari 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, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa

Genoa

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Lorenzo was the son of the painter Gregorio De Ferrari

Gregorio De Ferrari

Gregorio de Ferrari was an Italian Baroque painter of the Genoese school.-Biography:De Ferrari was born in Porto Maurizio. He came to Genoa to study law but instead became a painter. He apprenticed with Domenico Fiasella from 1664–69, and in this period he may have painted in the style of...

 and Margherita Piola, the daughter of another famous genoese painter, Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola

Domenico Piola was a Genoese painter of the Baroque period. His family studio was highly prolific.-Biography:Piola was an Italian painter, draughtsman, printmaker and designer...

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He was prolific in Genoa. Among many works, he painted the glory of the saint the ceiling of the chapel of Sant Ampeglio in the church of Santo Stefano. He painted Esther and Assuero as well as Judith and Holofernes the main altarpiece of the church of San Leonardo. He painted ceiling frescoes on the virtues of the ancient Romans for the Palazzo Brignole. He painted frescoes of Roman gods in the Durazzo palace.

In 1734 he visited Rome where he is said to have met the major painters, Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca was an Italian painter.He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in chalk only, to...

 and Marco Benefial

Marco Benefial

Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....

. Returning through Florence

Florence

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, he met Ignazio Hugford

Ignazio Hugford

Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford , was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style.- Life and work :...

 and Francesco Maria Niccolo Gaburri. The latter, who was Luogotenente of the Accademia di Belle Arti

Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze

The Accademia di Belle Arti is an art academy in Florence, Italy and it is now the operative branch of the still existing Accademia delle Arti del Disegno that was the first academy of drawing in Europe.-History:The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno The Accademia di Belle Arti ("Academy of Fine...

in Florence, helped him get awarded honorary membership on 1 August of 1734.

After he returned to Genoa, he painted the Assumption of the Virgin for the ceiling of the church of San Sebastiano. He also painted in the Doria palace in San Matteo, near Carloni, and in the church of Gesù, including in the chapel of Saints Stanislao Kostka and Francesco Borgia.

Never married, Lorenzo sometimes wore clerical garb and was nicknamed l’Abate de’ Ferrari.