Carlo Archinto
Portrait of Carlo Archinto
Count Carlo Archinto (30 July 1669 – 17 December 1732) was an Italian aristocrat and patron of the arts.
He was born into the aristocratic Archinto family and was educated initially under the Jesuits at the Brera Academy of Milan. He then studied with he Jesuits at the University of Ingolstadt. He travelled as a young man through France, Germany, Holland, and his native Italy and returned in Milan in 1700. In 1702, he founded a scholarly academy, which met at his palace. He collaborated with Filippo Argelati to publish the epic history by Muratori, titled Scriptores Rerum Italicarum. He was rewarded with appointments by the Hapsburg rulers.[1] Archinto commissioned frescoes by the Venetian Tiepolo to decorate his family's .[2]
References[]
- ^ Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3, by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, (Great Britain), 1843; Page 294.
- ^ Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches, by Jon L. Seydl, page 36. Frescoes destroyed by bombing in World War II.
External links[]
- Raponi, Nicola (1961). "ARCHINTO, Carlo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 3: Ammirato–Arcoleo (in Italian). Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
Categories:
- 1669 births
- 1732 deaths
- 18th-century Italian writers
- Italian art patrons
- People from Milan