Ascensidonio Spacca, known as Il Fantino di Bevagna (ca. 1557 – 1646) was an

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painter, active in a late-

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style.

Biography

He was born in

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. In Bevagna, he painted a Pietà for the church of San Francesco, also painted for the church of Santi Domenico e Giacomo, and has a painting depicting the ''Madonna of Constantinopoli and Saints'' on display in the Museo Civico. He painted the altarpiece in the Bontadosi Chapel of the church of San Francesco in

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. He painted a ''Last Supper'' in the apse of the parish church of

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. He painted for the Cassa Ecclesiastica (1562) and the Church of Bethlem of Fuligno, and for the church of Santa Maria di Vallegloria (1575) of

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.Indice-guida dei monumenti pagani e cristiani riguardanti l'istoria e l'arte nella provincia dell'Umbria
By Mariano Guardabassi, (1872) page 362.

References

1557 births 1646 deaths People from Bevagna 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Mannerist painters Umbrian painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub