A selection of works by Alessandro Turchi called Orbetto is being exhibited at the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona, his native town, until December 19th 1999. Turchi (1578-1649) was the most famous painter of Verona outside this city, which he left to work in Rome where he underwent the influence of Caravaggio. However, his works remained not well known during the following centuries.
Some 60 Turchi's works, drawings and paintings confounded, are known nowadays while many of his paintings were acquired during the 17th Century by many famous collectors such as Cardinal Mazarin or Willem III, Duke of Orange.
The artist, who notably painted «The Death of Cleopatra and Marc-Anthony» now in the Louvre Museum, had many aristocratic patrons and was elected Prince of the Academy of Saint Luke in 1637.
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