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Antonio Randa

1595 – 1650

Italian painter

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Lived 1595 – 1650 (aged 54–55). Antonio Randa was a painter and artist.

Oil on canvas, Private Collection. About 1640 Antonio Randa (born around Bologna about 1595, died maybe in Ferrara after 1657) was an Italian painter of the classicist period, active in Ferrara, Modena, Rovigo, Florence, Comacchio and his native Bologna.

Biography Randa first trained with Guido Reni, but afterwards worked under Lucio Massari and later, as a colleague, with the same Massari and with Girolamo Curti. He left Bologna for Modena in 1614 after committing murder.

Rovigo, "Rotonda" Church, Oil on Canvas. Signed 1644 Many of his paintings are lost. At present we can see works of him in Milan (Cardinal's residence), San Giorgio di Piano (main church), Gherghenzano (local church), Bologna (Santa Maria della Vita Oratory), San Giovanni in Persiceto (Holy Art Museum), Modena (Estense Gallery), Rovigo ("Rotonda" church), Florence (altarpiece, two paintings and frescoes in the Certosa del Galluzzo), Comacchio (two altarpieces in the Suffragio church) and in private collections ("St. Cecilia singing"; "Juno and Aeolus at the Cave of the Winds").

In his last known painting, in Comacchio, Randa portrayed himself among the souls in the fires of Purgatory.

Comacchio, Suffragio Oratory, Oil on Canvas. Post 1648 The painters Alessandro Provagli (died 1636) and Giuseppe Caletti (called "Cremonese") were his friends.

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1595, Bologna
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1650, Ferrara
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Italian painter (1595-1650)

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Antonio Randa was born in 1595 in Bologna.

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Antonio Randa died in 1650 in Ferrara.

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Antonio Randa was a painter and artist.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Antonio Randa

· Wikidata: Q2857414

· DBpedia: Antonio Randa

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