Carlo Sacchi (1617–1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the cap ...

and trained with a painter

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Milan Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 ...

,Filippo De Boni, ''Biografia degli artisti: Volume unico'', Venezia 1840 then traveled to Rome before settling in

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. There he imitated a style recalling

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

. He was also an engraver. Sacchi died in Pavia. One of his pupils was

Carlo Girolamo Bersotti Carlo Girolamo Bersotti (born Pavia, 1645 -died 1700s) was an Italian painter, active during the Baroque period in Milan. He was a pupil of Carlo Sacchi Carlo Sacchi (1617–1706) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Pav ...

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* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Artists from Pavia 1617 births 1706 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub