Antonio Cecchini (born 1660) was an Italian painter of the

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period.

Biography

This biography refers to Antonio Cecchini born in

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, and a pupil of Giacomo Palma the Younger. There appears to have been more than one painter of the same name, and the short biographical sketch by Lazzarini and Bechi, may conflate different painters. They state in 1783, that a pupil of ''Palma'', now living in Venice, had few works in Pesaro except ''Moses in the Nile'' in a private house. Zannendreis, in his biographies of

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painters, mentions an Antonio Cecchini, or Zecchini, who had died after 1750, mentioned in a 1779 guide to

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, who had painted the chapel of San Giuseppe in the

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and also for the church of Santa Maria Nuova, Vicenza. Agostino Castellaci is said to have been initially a pupil of Cecchini di Pesaro.Felsina pittrice vite de' pittori bolognesi
by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, Volume 2, page 17.

References

1660 births Year of death unknown 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub