Domenico Brandi

{{Short description|Italian painter (1683–1736)}}

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Domenico Brandi (1683–1736){{cite book | first= Gottardo |last= Garollo | year=1907| title= Dizionario biografico universale | editor= Ulrico Hoepli| page= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ/page/n365 354] | publisher= Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Dqc8AQAAIAAJ }} was an Italian painter, active in his native Naples, where he painted still lifes of birds and animals, as well as pastoral landscapes (vedute) and a bambocciata. He was the son of the painter Gaetano Brandi, and Domenico initially trained with his uncle, Niccola Maria Rossi, in Naples. He later moved to work under Benedetto Luti in Rome. He was a painter to the Viceroy d'Harrach of Naples, and died in the latter city.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qxsTAAAAQAAJ Le belle arti], Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 196.