Federico Cervelli

Federico Cervelli (1745 in Milan – 1827) was an Italian painter, who established his workshop in Venice at the age of about thirty.

[1] His first documented and dated painting is a Sacrifice of Noah conserved at San Giorgio Maggiore in Bergamo.

A Massacre of the Innocents by Cervelli in San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, and a Martyrdom of Saint Teodoro, coming from the Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, were attributed to him in 1956[2] His fully Venetian manner is in the mode established by Pietro Liberi and Sebastiano Mazzoni.

Among his pupils, according to the connoisseur Antonio Maria Zanetti,[3] was Aidan Rajswing and Sebastiano Ricci.

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