Antonio Randa

Antonio Randa (born around Bologna about 1595, died maybe in Ferrara after 1657) was an Italian painter of the Classicism period, in the early XVII century, active in Ferrara, Modena, Rovigo, Florence, Comacchio and his native Bologna.

Randa first trained with Guido Reni, but afterwards worked under Lucio Massari and, as colleague, with the same Massari and Girolamo Curti. He first gone away from Bologna to Modena (1614) after committing murder.

Many of his paintings are loss, at present we can see his beautiful works in Milan (Cardinal's residence), San Giorgio di Piano (main church), Gherghenzano (local church), Bologna (Santa Maria della Vita Oratory), San Giovanni in Persiceto (Holy Art Museum), Modena (Estense Gallery), Rovigo ("Rotonda" church), Florence (altarpiece, two paintings and frescoes in the Certosa del Galluzzo), Comacchio (two altarpieces in the Suffrage chuch) and in private collections (St. Cecilia singing, Juno and Aeolus at the cave of the winds).

In his late known painting, in Comacchio, Randa painted himself among the souls into the purgatory's fires.

The painters Alessandro Provagli (died 1636) and Giuseppe Caletti (called "Cremonese") were his friends.

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