Pier Martire Armani

Italian painter

Pier Martire or Pier Martino Armani[1] (January 14, 1613 – July 10, 1699) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and worked in Reggio.

He trained as a pupil of Leonello Spada and Sebastiano Vercellesi. He was one of the artists called to decorate the Basilica della Ghiara in Modena.[2]

References

  1. ^ A dictionary of painters and handbook for picture amateurs, Paschal Grousset - 1877, page 63.
  2. ^ Tiraboschi, Girolamo (1786). Notizie de' pittori, scultori, incisori, e architetti natii degli stati del Serenissimo Signor Duca di Modena. Modena: Presso la Societa' Tipografica. pp. 96–97.
Sources
  • Ticozzi, Stefano (1830). Dizionario degli architetti, scultori, pittori, intagliatori in rame ed in pietra, coniatori di medaglie, musaicisti, niellatori, intarsiatori d'ogni etá e d'ogni nazione' (Volume 1). Milan: Gaetano Schiepatti. p. 79.
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 11.


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