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(b Lucca, 1654; d Lucca, 1739). Italian nobleman and patron. He was a wealthy cloth merchant whose family had moved to Lucca towards the end of the 16th century and had since acquired noble status. As the result, it seems, of a visit he made to Venice and Bologna in the early 18th century, he started to collect paintings, using the Veronese artist Alessandro Marchesini (from whom he also commissioned 11 paintings in 1705) as his agent. Between 1704 and 1707 Marchesini worked assiduously on Conti’s behalf and assembled an extensive collection of contemporary Venetian and Bolognese paintings, mostly on historical or religious themes, from such artists as Antonio Bellucci, Antonio Balestra, Francesco Maria Bassi the younger, Giovanni Antonio Fumiani, Gregorio Lazzarini and Angelo Trevisani (1669–?1753)—all from the Veneto—and the Bolognese artists Marcantonio Franceschini and Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. Conti also commissioned three views of Venice from Luca Carlevaris, seven paintings of fruit and animals from ...