Giorgio Duranti

{{short description|Italian painter}}

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Giorgio Duranti (1683 – 5 November 1768) was an Italian painter and cleric of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia, where he was born.[https://books.google.com/books?id=vNlQ2xHD74MC Abecedario pittorico dei professori piu illustri in pittura, scultura], by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Florence (1775), page 1335-1336. An entry in Dandolo's study of the late Venetian Republic states a 1755 as year of death, and that many of his works were in the Royal Gallery of Turin, which was the nucleus of the Sabauda Gallery.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UpNpAAAAcAAJ La Caduta Della Repubblica di Venezia ed I Suoi Ultimi Cinquant Anni Studii], by Girolamo Dandolo; Publisher, Pietro Natarovich, Venice (1855); pages 166.

Duranti was also an abbot, count and knight. He studied sciences and music; he was known as an excellent player of the violoncello. He specialized in still life paintings of flowers. Many of those, he donated to the church of Palazzolo sull'Oglio who sold to the royal court of Spain. His brother Faustino (1606–1766), who became abbot after his brother's death, was also a painter specializing mainly in miniature portraits.{{cite book | author= Federico Nicoli Cristiani | year=1807| title= Della Vita delle pitture di Lattanzio Gambara; Memorie Storiche aggiuntevi brevi notizie intorno a' più celebri ed eccelenti pittori Bresciani| pages= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FF0GAAAAQAAJ/page/n170 153]–155| publisher= Spinelli e Valgiti, Brescia| url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_FF0GAAAAQAAJ}}