Giulio or Giuliano Traballesi or Trabellesi (2 November 1727, Florence – 14 November 1812, Milan) was an Italian designer and engraver.

Self-portrait (c.1780)

Biography

edit

He was born in Florence. After training with Agostino Veracini and Francesco Conti in Florence, Trabellesi studied architecture under Antonio Galli-Bibiena. He widened his experience by studying painting based on the works of Antonio da Correggio of Parma and those of painters from Bologna.[1] In 1775, he became professor of painting at the Brera Academy of Milan, where his style reflected the reigning neoclassicism of Mengs. He painted in Milan for the residences of the Busca and Serbelloni. Among his pupils at the academy was Andrea Appiani.[2][3]

His drawings for the collection of portraits of illustrious Florentines was engraved by Giuseppe Allegrini and others. He made etchings after Italian painters of the School of Bologna, among them:

References

edit
  1. ^ "Giuliano Traballesi", Grove Art excerpts - Electronic, 2003, Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  2. ^ Caimi, Antonio (1862). Delle arti del designo e degli artisti nelle provincie di Lombardia dal 1777-1862. Milan, Italy: Presso Luigi di Giacomo Pirola. pp. 43–44.
  3. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 582.