Maurelio Scanavini
Biography
He trained as a fresco painter with Francesco Ferrari in Ferrara, then spent some time in Bologna, where he worked as an oil canvas painter under Carlo Cignani, at a time when Giacomo Parolini was also a pupil. He was a friend of the painter Baruffaldi. He is called the Leccardino and Laderchi recounts a small scandal when Scanavini painted a dog licking himself in a canvas, afterwards obscured, for the Oratory of San Crispino.[http://www.fondazionecarife.it/RST/Maurelio-Scannavini-attr.html Fondazione Carife, Rinaldo and Armida painting.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318021333/http://www.fondazionecarife.it/RST/Maurelio-Scannavini-attr.html |date=2014-03-18 }}
He is said to have died from melancholy from lack of payment for his work. Barotti quotes: "poverty and misfortune, who accompanied him wherever he went, were the reasons for his death".[https://books.google.com/books?id=VcI-AAAAcAAJ Pitture e Scolture che si trovano nelle Chiese della Citta di Ferrara] By Cesare Barotti, page 28.
References
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Category:17th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
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Category:Italian Baroque painters
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