Orazio Samacchini
Illustration — The Virgin Mary and Saints Nabor and Felix, Francis of Assisi, Claire of Assisi, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Catherine of Alexandria by Orazio Sammachini. Orazio Samacchini (20 December 1532 – 12 June 1577) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city.
Also recorded as Orazio Sammachini · Orazio Funmaccini · Orazio Sammacchini · Orazio Sannacchini
Orazio Samacchini
Carlo Cesare Malvasia · Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Felsina pittrice: vite de pittori bolognesi, vol I, 1678. Illustrazioni di Giovanni Francesco Cassioni, Carlo Cesare Malvasia o altri. · Public domain
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- Orazio Samacchini was born on 20 December 1532. · Bologna.
- Died
- Orazio Samacchini died on 12 June 1577. · Bologna.
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- painter
- Known for
- Mercury Orders Aeneas to Abandon Dido
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Illustration — The Virgin Mary and Saints Nabor and Felix, Francis of Assisi, Claire of Assisi, John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, and Catherine of Alexandria by Orazio Sammachini. Orazio Samacchini (20 December 1532 – 12 June 1577) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city.
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Places of work recorded in the authority are Bologna, Cremona and Rome. Works named in the authority record are Mercury Orders Aeneas to Abandon Dido. Work by Orazio Samacchini is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, Nationalmuseum, National Gallery of Canada and Städel Museum.
He was born and died in Bologna. A close friend of Lorenzo Sabbatini, Samacchini traveled to Rome where he participated in 1563 in the decoration of the Vatican Belvedere and of the Sala Regia of Pius IV, along with Taddeo Zuccari and his brother. He returned to Bologna, where he was influenced by Pellegrino Tibaldi. Sammacchini painted for the Palazzo Vitelli a Sant'Egidio, Città di Castello, San Giacomo Maggiore, the church of Corpus Domini in Bologna, and Santa Maria Maggiore (Santa Maria Della Vita?) in Bologna. He painted frescoes of Virtues, Prophets, and Angels in Sant'Abbondio, Cremona. Instructions for how to paint (1570) in the Cathedral of Parma are collected in Gualandi's Memorie.
The Virgin being crowned in heaven with Saint Nabor and Saint Felix, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Francis, Saint Clare and Saint Catherine. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after O. Samacchini., by Orazio Samacchini
Orazio Samacchini · Wellcome Collection, London · Wellcome Collection
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1532
Orazio Samacchini born at Bologna.
1577
Orazio Samacchini died at Bologna.
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Orazio Samacchini was born in Bologna.
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