Antonio Pachera (5 July 1749 - 14 September 1791) was an Italian painter, born in Verona. Events 1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England. Year 1749 ( MDCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Events 81 - Domitian becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Year 1791 ( MDCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Verona is a city and provincial capital in Veneto, Northern Italy. He initially apprenticed with Marco Marcola. Marco Marcola (born 1740) was an Italian painter born and mainly active in Verona. He was the son of Francesco Pachera. He taught in the local academy of painters. Luigi Frisoni was one of his pupils. Luigi Frisoni (1760 - 10 January 1811 was an Italian painter born in Verona. He painted the Bishop St. Zeno and St. Toscana for the chiesa degli Esposti. For the church of S. Maria della Scala, he painted the altarpiece of the chapel of S. Maria Maddalena, depicting S. Luigi Gonzaga in glory, above purgatorial souls. For the church of the Riformati, a Triumphal Christ enters Jerusalem. For the church of St. Theresa, he painted a St. Luigi Gonzaga in glory, as seen by the ecstatic St. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi. For the Pellegrini palace, he frescoed a room with quadratura by Pasquale Cioffo. Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Fo the casa Arvedi alle Campane, he painted scenes from Ovid's Metamorphosis. At age 21 years, he had won a first prize in painting from the Accademia di Parma.
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- Zannandreis, Diego (1891). in Giuseppe Biadego: Le vite dei pittori, scultori e architetti veronesi. Stabilimento Tipo-Litografico G. Franchini, Verona; Digitized by Googlebooks from University of California copy on Feb 22, 2007, pages 549.