300px, ''Nativity'' by Camillo Procaccini Camillo Procaccini (3 March 1561 at Parma – 21 August 1629) was an Italian painter. He has been posthumously referred to as the ''

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'', for his prolific

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fresco decoration. Born in

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, he was the son of the painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder, and older brother to

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and Carlo Antonio, both painters.

Works

In 1587 he distinguished in the fresco decoration of the Basilica della Ghiara in

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. In the late 1580s he moved to

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, where count Camillo Visconti Borromeo commissioned him the decoration of his villa in Lainate. The organ shutters for the Cathedral of Milan were painted after 1590 by Camillo, Giuseppe Meda (died 1599), and Ambrogio Figino. He painted the frescoes of the nave and the apse of the Cathedral of Piacenza in collaboration with Ludovico Carracci (1605–1609), and the vault and choir in San Barnaba of Milan. He painted a ''Nativity'' in the Sacro Monte d'Orta. He is known for a ''Martyrdom of St. Agnes'' painted in fresco in the sacristy of the Milan cathedral; a ''Madonna and Child'' painted for the church of Santa Maria del Carmine; an Adoration of the Shepherds'' found in the Brera; and the ceiling of the church of Padri Zoccolanti, representing the ''Assumption of the Virgin''. He painted an altarpiece with the ''Annunciation'' for the Certosa di Pavia and two canvases with ''Mary sister of Moses who rejoices after the passage of the Red Sea'' and ''Rebecca who quenches the thirst of Abraham's servant'' from the cycle of heroines of the Bible (1620–1623) for the church of Santa Maria di Canepanova in

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. He frescoed a large ''Last Judgment'' in the apse of the church of San Prospero at Reggio. He painted a ''St. Roch administering the Sacrament to the Plague-stricken''. At Santa Maria del Suffragio, Piacenza he painted ''Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis and Anthony''. Among his pupils was the painter Giovanni Battista Discepoli. Another pupil was Lorenzo Franchi (c. 1563 – c. 1630).Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ...
By Giuseppe Campori, page 215.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Procaccini, Camillo 1561 births 1629 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Milan Painters from Bologna Italian Mannerist painters Fresco painters