Alessandro Vaiani, who also goes by the name Orazio Vajani or Vajano was an Italian painter of the early 17th century.
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He painted for some years in Milan, with works in San Carlo and Sant'Antonio Abate. He also painted in Genoa.[1][2]
His daughter, Anna Maria Vaiani (born 1604), was also an artist, who apparently had an unfelicitous marriage with the painter Jacques Courtois.[3]
References
edit- ^ One entry mentions he may be Alessandro Vaiano or Don Vaiano, but his biography of this Tuscan as a swindler, appears quite different.
- ^ Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical, by Michael Bryan (1849); Additions by George Stanley; HG Bohn publisher, London, page 303.
- ^ The Masterpieces of French Art Illustrated, Volume 1, by Louis Viardot, (1883) page 13.