Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi [SEP] date of death
Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi
Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi (1660–1727) was an Italian writer and art historian, author of the "Abecedario pittorico" (‘ABC of Painting’).
Born in Bologna, Orlandi joined the city’s Carmelite convent of San Martino. Here he undertook research in art history and was made a member of the Accademia Clementina.
The first edition of his "Abecedario pittorico" was published in Bologna in 1704. This was a biographical dictionary covering, according to its author, some four thousand painters,
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- October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (born 1657)
- "date unknown"
- Claude Duflos, French engraver (born 1665)
- Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (born 1669)
- Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (born 1644)
- Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures (born 1662)
- Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (born 1660)
- Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1660)
- Pablo González Velázquez,