Agostino Mitelli [SEP] occupation
Agostino Mitelli
Agostino Mitelli (16 March 1609 – 2 August 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of "quadratura" or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks. 
He was born in Battedizzo, near Bologna and died in Madrid while working for the court of Philip IV of Spain. He was a pupil of Gabriello Ferrantini ("degli Occhiali") and Girolamo Curti. He had a long and fruitful collaboration with Michelangelo Colonna in northern and central Italy; Colonna principally executed the
figurative elements and Mitelli, the "quadratura" framework. Examples of his "quadratura" can be found at Bologna, Parma, Modena, Florence, Rome, and Genoa, testifying to the popularity of the style. Colonna and Mitelli even travelled to Madrid, in 1658, to help decorate the Royal Alcazar and the Palace of Buen Retiro. Mitelli died in Madrid. He also published some etchings in a manuscript entitled "Freggi dell'architettura da Agostino Mitelli".
Through his numerous pupils who spread out through Italy and Europe