Giuliano Traballesi Biography
Giuliano Traballesi (Florence, 2 November 1727 – Milan, 14 November 1812) was an Italian painter and engraver. Giuliano (or Giulio) Traballesi after winning a prize at the Parma Academy in 1764, began working as a fresco painter in the cities of Livorno, Pisa and Florence. In 1775 he was called to Milan, to teach in the newly founded Brera Academy, and to collaborate on the decorations in the Court Palace, in the Imperial Villa of Monza and in many noble palaces, with compositions of great liveliness, inspired by the scenographic painting of the eighteenth century, and a particular mastery of the fake chiaroscuro bas-reliefs. As an engraver he created some portraits of the illustrious Florentines, together with Giuseppe Allegrini and others. In Bologna he copied the works of the masters, which he engraved between 1796 and 1812, publishing the collection of the XXII paintings by the excellent masters especially from Bologna, reproductions of famous works including: The communion of Saint Jerome by Agostino Carracci. Sant'Alo and Petronio near the Virgin and the Conversion of Saint Paul by Ludovico Carracci. The circumcision of Guido Reni. The Communion of Saint Catherine by Giacomo Cavedone.
