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| | Francesco Albani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Francesco Albani or Albano (March 17 or August 17, 1578–October 4, 1660) was an Italian painter. |
 | | Born at Bologna, he was one of the pupils of the prestigious Bolognese school which emerged from the tutelage of the Carraccis (Annibale, Agostino, and Ludovico;, and included as disciples, Domenichino, Massari, Viola, Lanfranco, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Pietro Faccini, Remigio Cantagallina, and Reni among many. |
 | | His father was a silk merchant, and intended to bring up his son to the same occupation; but Albani by age twelve, came to apprentice, contemporary with Guido Reni, under Denis Calvert. |
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