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The Italian painter Felice Torelli, born in Verona in 1667 and deceased in Bologna in 1748, was active from the end of the seventeenth century to the first half of the eighteenth century. His training took him from Verona, where he began his apprenticeship, to Bologna, where he subsequently studied under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. In 1710, he was among the founders of the Accademia Clementina in Bologna, where he taught.
Giovanni Domenico Ferretti came to Bologna to work with Torelli; Torelli’s pupils at the Accademia Clementina also included the brothers Ubaldo and Gaetano Gandolfi. The works noted include mythological subjects such as Ercole che protegge le figlie di Licomede, an oil on canvas held at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo in Brescia, Il centauro Nesso rapisce Deianira, also painted in oil on canvas, and Le Sacrifice d’Iphigénie, mentioned in a private collection. Religious subjects are represented by San Girolamo e il Beato Colombini fondatore dell’ordine delle gesuate, dated 1723 and located at the oratory of the SS. Trinità, by a Martyrdom of Saint Maurelius in Ferrara Cathedral, by a Madonna and Child with angels and saints at the Chiesa del Suffragio in Fano, and by a Saint Peter Martyr at the Detroit Institute of Arts.
This profile brings together identity references for Felice Torelli and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
1 references are documented at Dobiaschofsky. Each record links to its source; the amounts are not a general valuation of the artist’s work.
These references are shown separately because of their attribution or lot composition. Each record states the reason.
Red chalk drawing
Attribué à FELICE TORELLI — Allegorie der Malerei.
Rötelzeichnung
bez. "Torelli"
Date to be documented
Inscribed “Torelli”
Published result : 250 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 450
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Documentation updated : 2026-10-19
