Domenico Parodi

Madonna with Saints Leonardo and Stephen, in Santa Maria delle Vigne, Genoa

Domenico Parodi (1672 – Genoa, 19 December 1742) was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect, of the late-Baroque. He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor, Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Parodi (1674-1730)

Biography

Domenico was initially apprenticed with in Venice Sebastiano Bombelli, then, in the early 1690s, working in the studios of Carlo Maratta and then under Maratta's pupil Paolo Girolamo Piola. Among his pupils were Nicolo Malatto,^[1]Angiolo Rossi, Batista Parodi (his brother); and son Domenico. Domenico Junior resided in Lisbon, and was a celebrated portrait painter in his day. Another pupil, briefly, was Francesco Campora. He frescoed a hall in Palazzo Negroni.^[2]

References

1. Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli stati del Re di Sardegna, Volume 7, by Goffredo Casalis, Turin (1840), page 728.
2. Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator), ed. History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. III. London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007: Henry G. Bohn. p. 280.

• (Italian) S. Soldani: ‘Profilo di Domenico Parodi’, Crit. A., lxxxvii (1967), pp. 60–70
• (Italian) F. Franchini Guelfi: ‘Domenico Parodi’, La scultura a Genova e in Liguria dal seicento al novecento (Campomorone, 1988), ii, pp. 280–1