Master of Ozieri

Illustration — Holy Family, (16th century), Pinacoteca Giovanni Spano, Ploaghe The Master of Ozieri (Maestro di Ozieri; 16th century), identified by some scholars as Andrea Sanna, although his precise identity is not yet known, was an Italian painter from Sardinia and head teacher of a Mannerist movement born and developed in Logudoro during the first half of the sixteenth century, whose painting shows Spanish and Flemish influences. He was the painter of the polyptych of the Madonna of Loreto preserved in the Cathedral of the Immaculate in Ozieri, organized in seven sections, and the pictorial cycle of the church of Sant'Elena in Benetutti.