Ercole Lelli was an Italian painter and sculptor of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza. He became noted for his anat
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena.
Ercole Lelli
…He studied engraving with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and architecture with Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena. In 1727 he won the Marsili prize offered by the Accademia Clementina of Bologna with his drawing of Judith and Holofernes. This success enabled him to begin a career as a painter and sculptor. His paintings, few of which…