Cristoforo Roncalli (c. 1552–1626) was an Italian mannerist painter. He was one of the three painters known as ''Pomarancio'' or ''Il Pomarancio''. Cristoforo Roncalli - Pope Sylvester Baptizes Constantine - WGA18063

Cristoforo Roncalli - Pope Sylvester Baptizes Constantine - WGA18063

Life

Roncalli was born in Pomarance, a town near Volterra. His training occurred in Tuscany, and around 1578, he relocated to Rome, Italy where he worked for

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(also known as ''il Pomarancio''). Most of his

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work was in Rome, though he worked for a decade in Loreto (1605–1615), where he decorated the New Sacristy. In Rome he decorated the cupola of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto and of San Silvestro in Capite. He helped decorate '' Santa Maria in Vallicella'' for the

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. He also painted for the Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso, the ''Baptism of Constantine'' and ''St. Simon'' in the transept of San Giovanni in Laterano, and designed the mosaics in the ''Cappella Clementina'' in the St. Peter's Basilica. One of his pupils from Siena was

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, and his son

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. Roncalli was named a Cavaliere of Christ in 1607. He died in Rome in 1626.

Works

*''Madonna and Child with Saints Anthony and Agatha'' (1576), Museo del Duomo, Siena *Frescoes at Palazzo Agostini (1576), Siena *Life of St Francis de Paula (c. 1579-84), Trinità dei Monti, Rome *'' Metamorphoses'',

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, Siena *''Ciclo degli avvenimenti della confraternita del Crocefisso'' (1583 - 1584), San Marcello al Corso church *''Passion of Christ'', (1585 - 1590) Rome, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome *''Life of St Paul'' (1585 - 1590) Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome *''Life of St Philip of Neri'' (1596 - 1599), Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome *''St Domitilla with Saints Nereus and Achilles'' (1599),

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, Rome *''Baptism of Constantine the Great'' (1600), San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome *''Eterno Benedicente'', Chapel of the Sacraments, San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome *''St Simon'' (1599), Santa Maria della Scala, Rome *''Madonna with Child Jesus blessing'' 123 x 97 cm, 1600 circa, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino *''Madonna and Child, St Augustine, St Mary Magdalen and Angels'' 253 x 166 cm, 1610-1615, Brera Gallery, Milan *''The Presentation of the Temple'', Recanati, San Vito church *''Saints Clare and Margaret of Cortona'', attributed, Cappuccini Church, Recanati *Frescoes at Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto *''Life of the Virgin'', (1606-1610) Treasure Hall (Sala del Tesoro), Basilica della Santa Casa, Loreto *''Ceiling of Palazzo Gallo'', Osimo, Palazzo Gallo. *''St Joseph frees souls from Purgatory'', (attributed) Potenza Picena, communal gallery *Crucifixion, Potenza Picena, communal gallery *''Madonna della Misericordia'', Chiesa della Misericordia, San Severino Marche *''Madonna del Carmelo'', (attributed) communal gallery, Corridonia *''Enthroned Madonna with Child and Saints'' (1595) (communal gallery) Mapello (BG), Carvisi-Cabanetti with Oratorio Maria Annunziata *''Santi Nursini'', (early 17th-century) Norcia, Concattedrale di Santa Maria ArgenteaRomano Cordella, Norcia e territorio. *''Portrait of Cardinal

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'', private collection

References

Bibliography

*"Macerata e il suo territorio: la Pittura" by Giuseppe Vitalini Sacconi *Romano Cordella, "Norcia e territorio" (''Norcia and the Surrounding Area'').

External links

''Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi''
a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Cristoforo Roncalli (see index)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Roncalli, Cristoforo 1550s births 1626 deaths People from Pomarance 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Mannerist painters