Donato Creti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Donato Creti

Italian painter (1671-1749)

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1671

Place of Birth: Cremona, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 31-Jan-1749

Profession: painter

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli.
He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style.
It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures.
Among his followers were Aureliano Milani, Francesco Monti, and Ercole Graziani the Younger.
Two other pupils were Domenico Maria Fratta and Giuseppe Peroni.



Description	Italian painter
Date of birth/death	24 February 1671	31 January 1749
Location of birth/death	Cremona	Bologna
Work location	Spain (1737); Bologna (1686–1749)
Authority control	: Q2340302 VIAF: 56880540 ISNI: 0000 0001 0904 6476 ULAN: 500011810 LCCN: nr99004595 WGA: CRETI, Donato WorldCat