Marco Antonio Bassetti (1586–1630) was an

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance languag ...

painter.

Life

He was born in

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, and was a pupil of Felice Ricci. He then went to Venice where he was particularly influenced by the works of

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

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and

Jacopo Bassano Jacopo Bassano (c. 1510 – 14 February 1592), known also as Jacopo dal Ponte, was an Italian painter who was born and died in Bassano del Grappa near Venice, and took the village as his surname. Having trained in the workshop of his father, Fran ...

. He is known to have been in Rome in 1616, and may have arrived there two years earlier. In Rome he came under the influence of the paintings of

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

and

Orazio Borgianni Orazio Borgianni (6 April 1574 – 14 January 1616) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso. Borgianni was born in Rome, where he was docu ...

. On his return to

he painted a ''St. Peter and Saints'' for the church of San Tomaso and a ''Coronation of the Virgin'' for Sant' Anastasia. He died from the plague in

in 1630. Among his pupils were

Fra Semplice Fra Semplice da Verona (c. 1589, Verona – 1654, Rome) was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active in Verona. He was a friend of Paolo Massimo and trained with Marcantonio Bassetti. Also known as Fra Semplice of Verona. He painted in Ve ...

Bryan 1886 and

Paolo Massimo Paolo is a masculine given name, the Italian form of the name Paul. It may refer to: People Art * Paolo Abbate (1884–1973), Italian-American sculptor * Paolo Alboni (1671–1734), Italian painter * Paolo Antonio Barbieri (1603–1649), Ital ...

. His ''Dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene'' (c. 1616), painted on

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, is in the collection of the

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities University museum, museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard ...

, Cambridge.

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* 1586 births 1630 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Caravaggisti Painters from Verona 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub