Antonio Maria Marini Biography
Antonio Maria Marini was born on 9 February 1668 in Venice. During his youth, he dedicated himself to the study of painting near Padua. Subsequently, around 1693, Marini moved to Bologna, where he worked on the creation of some landscape works on behalf of Count Zambeccari. These works, exhibited at the National Art Gallery of Bologna, present a pre-romantic sensitivity, close to that of Salvator Rosa. In 1702, Antonio Maria Marini returned to Venice and began working on the works that made him famous. Among these, we can remember the 20 paintings purchased by Lord Edward Irwin, visible today at Temple Newsam House, connected to the City Art Gallery in Leeds. Marini had a particular skill in landscape painting. He managed to render them in a spectacular way, thanks to the use of a very broad brush stroke technique. This style is evident in his painting "Mountains with Natural Arch and Horsemen" made between 1710 and 1720, an Arcadian landscape and fantasy painting that is today in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. Antonio Maria Marini died in his hometown, Venice, on 15 December 1725.
