Angelo Massarotti (1653–1723) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
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period, active in his native
Cremona
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.
Biography
Massarotti trained initially with
Agostino Bonisoli, then in
Rome
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with
Carlo Cesi.
The historian Titi (page 379) said he painted a fresco depicting ''Christ with Santa Lugarda'' and other for the church of
San Salvatore in Lauro
San Salvatore in Lauro is a Catholic church in central Rome, Italy. It is located on a piazza of the same name in the rione Ponte. It stands on Via Vecchiarelli, just south of the Lungotevere Tor di Nona and north of via dei Coronari. It is the ...
. This gained him admission to
Accademia San Luca of Rome in 1680, when he returns to Cremona. In Cremona, he painted an ''Immaculate Conception'' for the church of
Sant'Ilario, and a large canvas over the main door of the church of
Sant’Agostino representing the ''Doctors of the church and founders of religious orders''.
Pupils of Massarotti include
Giovanni Angelo Borroni,
Pietro da Pietro,
Sigismondo Benini.
Pietro Frassi, and
Bernardino Deho.
La pittura cremonese
by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 140.
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1653 births
1723 deaths
Painters from Cremona
Italian Baroque painters
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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