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Luciano Borzone (
1590-
1645) was an
Italian painter of the
Baroque period (although painting in a slightly more antique style), active mainly in his natal city of
Genoa.
After an apprenticeship with apprenticeship with
Filippo Bertolotto, his uncle, he was guided by the Duke of
Massa Alberigo to be a pupil of
Carlo Corte. He was a prominent portrait painter. In Genoa, he painted the
Presentation in the Temple for the church of San Domenico, and the
Baptism of Christ for the church of Santo Spirito. Supposedly died from a fall from scaffolding while painting a picture of a
Nativity for ceiling of the
Nunziata del Vastato. His three sons, Giovanni Battista and Carlo (both who died of the plague in 1657), and
Maria Francesco (1625-1679) were also painters. Additional disciples were
Giovanni Battista Mainero,
Giovanni Battista Monti,
Giovacchino Assereto, and
Silvestro Chiesa.
He etched some plates from his own compositions:
Portrait of Giustiniani;
St. Peter delivered from Prison;
Prometheus devoured by the Vulture;
Children playing; and a set of devout subiects. Maria Francesco, the third son, excelled in painting landscapes and sea-pieces in the style of
Lorrain and
Pouissin, and came to be employed at the court of
Louis XIV. He was born in 1625, and died in 1679.
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