''Selfportrait'', Uffizi Orazio Riminaldi - Daedalus and Icarus

Orazio Riminaldi (5 September 1593 – 19 December 1630) was an

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painter who painted mainly history subjects in a Caravaggist style.

Biography

Riminaldi was born and died in

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. He was in

first a pupil of the little known painter Rainero Alberghetti, and later studied with

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. No works from his early period survive. He moved to Rome sometime between 1610 and 1620. Here he underwent the influence of the Caravaggist movement most likely through

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but also from

Simon Vouet Simon Vouet (; 9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter who studied and rose to prominence in Italy before being summoned by Louis XIII to serve as Premier peintre du Roi in France. He and his studio of artists created religious and ...

.Gianni Papi. "Riminaldi, Orazio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 May. 2016 An early work entitled ''Samson Killing the Philistines'', which he painted for the

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and completed in May 1622 shows the influence of

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and

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of the Emilian school of painting, combined with the naturalistic Caravaggesque style that he had developed in Rome. His knowledge of the work of contemporary French artists working in Rome is also evident in certain paintings attributed to him, such as the ''Daedalus and Icarus'', known in three versions (one of which is in the

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). His ''Martyrdom of St. Cecilia'' dated to the early 1620s (

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, Florence) is regarded as his masterpiece. Riminaldi clearly took direct inspiration for this composition from Caravaggio's ''Martyrdom of St Matthew'' (

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). He took from Caravaggio's earlier work the image of the plummeting angel and the violent gesture of the executioner. The ''Martyrdom of St. Cecilia'' shows further stylistic similarities with the works of

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625),Francucci, Massimo (2012). "Biographies of Artists", 356 p. In Rossella Vodret (ed.) Caravaggio's Rome: 1600–1630. Vol-II. Skira Editore S.p.A., Milan. 854 pp. occasionally referred to as Bartolomeo Crescenz ...

and

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. He clearly was also active as a portrait artist. He painted a portrait of Curzio Ceuli (, private collection in Florence) in a Caravaggesque style not unlike that of Orazio Gentileschi and

Valentin de Boulogne Valentin de Boulogne (before 3 January 1591 – 19 August 1632), sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style. Origins Valentin was born in Coulommiers, France, where he was baptised in the parish of Sai ...

. He died suddenly in 1630 in Pisa of the plague. His ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for the

was completed posthumously by his brother

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. Among his pupils were his brother Giovanni Battista Riminaldi, Alessandro Cominotti and Giovanni Navarretti.Pisa illustrata nelle arti del disegno
Volume 2, by Alessandro da Morrona, page 513

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Riminaldi, Orazio 1593 births 1631 deaths Artists from Pisa Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Baroque painters Italian history painters Caravaggisti

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