MARCHESINI, Alessandro

Italian painter and art merchant, active in Northern Italy and Venice. He is traditionally believed to have trained with Biagio Falcieri (1628-1703). At the age of 17 he moved to Bologna, where he entered the workshop of Carlo Cignani. His first commission after his return to Verona was for the fresco decoration of the vault of San Domenico (1687), with scenes glorifying the saint, set in a quadratura framework by Carlo Tedesco. The style is heavily Baroque. In 1690-91 Marchesini painted a Jonah for San Niccolo, Verona; this remains within a Veronese tradition, whereas his Assumption of the Virgin for San Biagio (1692; Breonio, SS Marziale e Giovanni) and his Purification of the Virgin (1699; Verona, Palazzo Scaligero, Notai Chapel) contain references to the Bolognese art of the Carracci.