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Michele Rocca

Michele Rocca (c. 1666 - 1751) was active/lived in Italy.  Michele Rocca is known for Religious and mythology themed painting, altarpieces.

Michele Rocca's date of birth was provided by Pio, who also wrote that in 1682 Rocca journeyed to Rome, where he was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, returning for further study to Parma, where he concentrated on pictures by Correggio.

He was documented as being in Parma in 1687 but had returned to Rome by 1695, when he executed the altar of St Francis Receiving the Stigmata for San Paolino alla Regola (in situ). In 1698 he received payment for an altarpiece of the Penitent Magdalene for S Maria Maddalena, Rome (in situ).

In 1710 Rocca was elected to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, and in approximately the same year he executed two of his best-known paintings: the Toilet of Venus (Providence, Museum of Art) and the Finding of Moses (University of Chicago, Smart Museum of Art). These are among the finest of the small-scale, semi-precious cabinet pictures of mythological and hagio-graphical subjects that dominate Rocca's oeuvre and gained for   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3411 characters.]  Artist bio

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