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Alessandro Magnasco

1667–1749 · Republic of Genoa

Born
1667 · Genoa
Died
1749 · Genoa

46 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Alessandro Magnasco, also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes, characterized by fragmented forms and swift brushstrokes.

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Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.

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Selected from 46 works by Alessandro Magnasco in the Collect24 Registry.

Alessandro Magnasco, Bacchanale

Alessandro Magnasco

Bacchanale, about 1720–1730

Oil on canvas

118.1 × 148.6 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-137786

Alessandro Magnasco, Noli Me Tangere

Alessandro Magnasco

Noli Me Tangere, 1705–1710

Oil on canvas

144.8 × 109.2 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-137012

Alessandro Magnasco, Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Alessandro Magnasco

Christ and the Samaritan Woman, 1705–1710

Oil on canvas

144.8 × 109.2 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-136172

Alessandro Magnasco, The Triumph of Venus

Alessandro Magnasco

The Triumph of Venus, about 1720–1730

Oil on canvas

118.1 × 148.6 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-128433

Alessandro Magnasco, Bacchanalia

Alessandro Magnasco

Bacchanalia, 1710

oil paint

110 × 167 cm

Hermitage Museum

C24-419036

Alessandro Magnasco, Mountainous Landscape

Alessandro Magnasco

Mountainous Landscape, 1720

oil paint

158 × 211 cm

Hermitage Museum

C24-424603

Alessandro Magnasco, Standing Pilgrim Friar

Alessandro Magnasco

Standing Pilgrim Friar, ca. 1705–20

Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on light tan paper

22.3 × 14.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-542497

Alessandro Magnasco, Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8)

Alessandro Magnasco

Elijah Visited by an Angel in the Wilderness (1 Kings 19:4-8), 1687–1749

Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on light brown paper

26.3 × 22.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-527157

Alessandro Magnasco, A Shepherd Addressing a Seated Male Nude

Alessandro Magnasco

A Shepherd Addressing a Seated Male Nude, n.d.

Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue paper

25.5 × 28.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-470533

Alessandro Magnasco, Christ attended by Angels

Alessandro Magnasco

Christ attended by Angels, 1705

oil paint

193 × 142 cm

Museo del Prado

C24-389334

Alessandro Magnasco, Halt of the Brigands

Alessandro Magnasco

Halt of the Brigands, 1710

oil paint

112 × 162 cm

Hermitage Museum

C24-414083

Alessandro Magnasco, two monk hermits at a mountain slope

Alessandro Magnasco

two monk hermits at a mountain slope, 1700

oil paint

96 × 73 cm

Munich Central Collecting Point

C24-406948

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