Domenico Parodi (1672 – 1742)

• Was an Italian painter, as well as a sculptor and architect.
• He was the son of the famous Genoese sculptor Filippo Parodi and the older brother of the Baroque painter Giovanni Battista Parodi.
• Domenico was initially apprenticed with in Venice Sebastiano Bombelli.

• In the early 1690s he was working in the studios of Carlo Maratta and then under Maratta's pupil Paolo Girolamo Piola

• Among his pupils were Nicolo Malatto, 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 was Francesco Campora.

• He frescoed a hall in Palazzo Negroni.

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