Giacomo Barucco (
Rovato
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, 1582 - circa 1630) was an
Italian
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painter, active in a
Mannerist
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style.
Biography
He was born in Rovato (Brescia) in 1582. He was active as a painter in Brescia. He acted in the environment of the late Brescian mannerism, together with
Antonio Gandino
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and
Camillo Rama, with whom he was sometimes confused.
The only certain work that has remained of him is the Hell in
Sant'Afra, a farraginous and confused picture, of vague tintorettesco flavor (
Morassi), with Maccarinelli's naive sensibility could have a terrible effect, but fully justifies the overall judgment given by Lanzi: "beyond the common use".
His style was influenced or a pupil of
Pietro Marone and
Palma il Giovane
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.
Among his works are a ''Deposed Christ with two angels and Saints
Angelo Carmelitano and Carlo Borromeo'' for the church of
Santa Maria del Carmine in Brescia, assigned to him by
Faino,
Paglia and others, but by
Maccarinelli attributed it to Antonio Gandino; the attribution to Barucco seems more reliable, since in Gandino one usually recognizes a more polished and hard sign, while the work in question is carried out with a fluid and rather pasty hand; it mixes evocative memories of
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with a palm-branded venetism, adhering to a typically
Mannerist
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structure. He also painted the Sybils and other frescoes in the church. He also painted a ''Madonna and child with Saints Lucy, Catherine, and Apollonio'' for the parish church of Marcheno; and an ''Annunciation'' (1609) for the Pieve of Quinzano d’Oglio. He also is attributed a canvas of ''Christ on the Road to Calvary'' once found in the Church of the Poveri, also called della Misericordia. The frescoes with the ''Joyous Mysteries'' in St. Domenico have been destroyed, and the canvas with ''Jesus at Calvary of the Church of Mercy'' has been dispersed (praised especially by Fenaroli).
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1582 births
1630 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Italian Mannerist painters
Painters from Brescia
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