page_title: Alessandro Magnasco
hierarchical_section_title: Alessandro Magnasco
caption_attribution_description: Self-portrait
context_page_description: Alessandro Magnasco, also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes. Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.
context_section_description: Alessandro Magnasco  (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape scenes.  Magnasco's distinctive style is characterized by fragmented forms rendered with swift brushstrokes and darting flashes of light.
caption: Self-portrait
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