Alessandro Magnasco

1667–1749 · Baroque

Alessandro Magnasco, also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.

36 paintings

• Theodosius Repulsed from the Church by Saint Ambrose (c. 1705)
• Monks at Supper (c. 1720)
• Arcadian Landscape with Figures (c. 1700)
• The Synagogue (c. 1730)
• Interior of a Synagogue (c. 1725–35)
• Hermits (Anachorets) (1713)
• Washerwomen and Woodcutters (1713)
• Brutal Interrogation (Torture Scene) (1728)
• Landscape with two Repentant Monks
• The Alchemist
• Concert in the Ruins
• The Tame Magpie (1707)
• Monks Praying in a Grotto (1705)
• Saint Jerome in a Landscape (1725)
• The Shipwreck
• Singing Birds
• Landscape with Stormy Sea (1721)
• Torture Scene (1708)
• The Triumph of Venus (1725)
• Bacchanale (1725)
• Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1707)
• Noli Me Tangere (1707)
• Halt of the Brigands (1710)
• Mountainous Landscape (1720)
• The Tame Magpie (ca. 1707–8)
• Nuns at Work
• The Baptism of Christ (c. 1740)
• Christ at the Sea of Galilee (c. 1740)
• The Choristers (c. 1740/1745)
• Christ attended by Angels (1705)
• Landscape with Saint Bruno ? (1750)
• Carthusian Monks in a Landscape (1724)
• Massacre of the Innocents (1727)
• The Raising of Lazarus (1727)
• En skærsliber (1682-1749)
• Munkenes bøn ved havet (1682-1749)