Alessandro Magnasco
Italian painter
Died when: 82 years 36 days (985 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), 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.
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