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He was born to Francesco Rivarola and Giulia Panizza and baptised by June 1, 1590.
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Alfonso Rivarola
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He is also known as il Chenda because of an inheritance he received from someone with that name. As a youth, he became a pupil of the painter Carlo Bononi. In Ferrara, he painted the Marriage of the Virgin in Santa Maria in Vado.
He painted two canvases (Manna in Desert and Miracle of Loaves and Fish for the parish church of Quartesana.
He completed an unfinished canvas of Bononi depicting the Marriage of the Virgin for Santa Maria in Vado
He was also employed in the production of transient decorations for spectacles, festivities, and also the theater, and was employed in Ferrara by the Count Borso Bonacossi, and in Parma by the Duke. Foreign example in 1631, Borso celebrated a tournament in celebration of the marriage of Beatrice Estense Tassoni, daughter of the Marchese Ferrante, to Giovanni Francesco Sacchetti, brother of Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti, then legate of Ferrara.
The tournament was held in the Sala dei Giganti, a hall in the Giardino Estense della Fontana. The theatrical presentation represented the story of Alcina the Sorceress, a Fisherman"s Tale.
In 1636, he worked for the Marchese Pio Enea degli Obizzi in a celebration held in the Prato della Valle in Padua.
In 1638, again in Padua, he helped decorate a performance and tournament in the Hall of the Montartone Monastery. At a cost of over 11,000 crowns, over 80 feet tall and 70 feet long, spouting fireworks, a column in the piazza was converted into a seven headed hydra with each head representing heretic notions of the Virgin Mary. The masque had a cloud descend with Archangel Gabriel, incinerating the hydra.
He died in Ferrara.
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Italy