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Alessio Puciollo De Marchis (Naples, 1684 – Perugia, August 1752) was an Italian painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Rome and Urbino, mainly as a landscape designer. De Marchis was born in Naples in 1684 and began his career at the age of seventeen in Rome, where he trained in the studio of Rosa da Tivoli. Read the full biography

Alessio Puciollo De Marchis (Naples, 1684 – Perugia, August 1752) was an Italian painter of the 17th century, active mainly in Rome and Urbino, mainly as a landscape designer. De Marchis was born in Naples in 1684 and began his career at the age of seventeen in Rome, where he trained in the studio of Rosa da Tivoli. In 1715 he painted some rooms of Palazzo Ruspoli although the frescoes were lost. He was imprisoned at Castel Sant'Angelo probably because he caused a fire to paint the fire more realistically but, thanks to the intervention of Cardinal Annibale Albani, he was freed on 5 May 1728. Under the protection of the Cardinal he went to Urbino, where he painted part of Palazzo Albani. He was also active in Perugia, where he painted part of the chapel of the Gregorian college in 1739 and a room of the Palazzo dei Priori in 1748. He was the teacher of his son, Eugenio De Marchis, active in Perugia. He died in 1752, probably in August, in Urbino.