Antonio Randa
Antonio Randa was an Italian painter of the classicist period, active in Ferrara, Modena, Rovigo, Florence, Comacchio and his native Bologna.Biography
Randa first trained with Guido Reni, but afterwards worked under Lucio Massari and later, as a colleague, with the same Massari and with Girolamo Curti. He left Bologna for Modena in 1614 after committing murder.
Many of his paintings are lost. At present we can see works of him in Milan, San Giorgio di Piano, Gherghenzano, Bologna, San Giovanni in Persiceto, Modena, Rovigo, Florence, Comacchio and in private collections.
In his last known painting, in Comacchio, Randa portrayed himself among the souls in the fires of Purgatory.
The painters Alessandro Provagli and Giuseppe Caletti were his friends.
