Sunday, December 25, 2022

Antonio Travi
(1613 - 1668)


Antonio Travi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Sestri, near Genoa, was generally known as Il Sordo di Sestri on account of his deafness. He was originally a color-grinder to Bernardo Strozzi, who instructed him in design, and he afterwards studied landscape painting under Gottfried Wals. His son Antonio was also a landscape painter. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Travi

Adorazione dei pastori (Adoration of the shepherds)
1625
Oil on canvas
102 x 152 cm
Musei di Strada Nuova - Palazzo Bianco, Genova, Italia
https://www.museidigenova.it/it/adorazione-dei-pastori-travi-circa-1625

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