Agostino Mitelli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1609-1660)
Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1609
Place of Birth: Badolo-Battedizzo, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Date of Death: 02-Aug-1660
Profession: painter, etcher
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Agostino Mitelli
- Agostino Mitelli (16 March 1609 – 2 August 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks.
- He was born in Battedizzo, near Bologna and died in Madrid while working for the court of Philip IV of Spain.
- He was a pupil of Gabriello Ferrantini (degli Occhiali) and Girolamo Curti.
- He had a long and fruitful collaboration with Michelangelo Colonna in northern and central Italy; Colonna principally executed the figurative elements and Mitelli, the quadratura framework.
- Examples of his quadratura can be found at Bologna, Parma, Modena, Florence, Rome, and Genoa, testifying to the popularity of the style.
- Colonna and Mitelli even travelled to Madrid, in 1658, to help decorate the Royal Alcazar and the Palace of Buen Retiro.
- Mitelli died in Madrid.
- He also published some etchings in a manuscript entitled Freggi dell'architettura da Agostino Mitelli. Through his numerous pupils who spread out through Italy and Europe, Mitelli exerted a strong influence on the 'school' of quadratura painting.
- His son Giuseppe Maria Mitelli (1634–1718) was also a painter and engraver.
- Two of his daughters married pupils of his; Baldassare Bianchi was mainly active in Mantua, and Giacomo Alboresi was mainly active in Parma and Florence.
- Giovanni Paderna, Bianchi's first master, had been a follower of Mitelli.
- Giovanni Giacomo Monti, a partner of Bianchi, was Mitelli's pupil.
- Giacomo Friani;Domenico Santi, known as Mengazzino; Francesco Quaino; and Andrea Montecelli were also Mitelli's pupils.
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