Giorgio Soleri

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Giorgio Soleri was an Italian painter. Giorgio's son, Raffaele Angelo Soleri, was also a painter. The source indicates only two authenticated works of Soleri: a Virgin who places the city of Alessandria under her protection and St Lawrence genuflects to the Madonna from a church in Casale. [1]

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  1. Dizionario biografico universale, Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 123.


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