Ottavio Semini (c. 1530–1604) was an Italian painter of the late-

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He was born and trained in

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and died in

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. He was the son and pupil of Antonio Semini, and was influenced by Perino del Vaga. Aided his brother Andrea in many works, but was obliged to leave Genoa on account of a homicide and rape, and afterwards led a dissipated life in Milan. He helped paint for the chapel of San Girolamo in Sant'Angelo in Milan. With his brother,

Andrea Semini Andrea Semini (or Semino) (1525-1594) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance, active mainly in his native Genoa. He was born in Genoa, son and pupil of the painter Antonio Semini. After studying some time under his father, together with h ...

, he frescoed some salons the

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in Milan. He may have committed suicide. Among his pupils were

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, located in the

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of the

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was painted by Ottavio Semini in 1567.

References

*Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, Volume IV, Scribner and Sons (1887): page 170. *Abecedario Pittorico del M.R.P. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Naples, 1763. p348

*Notizie de' professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua, By Filippo Baldinucci. page 22

1530s births 1604 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Genoa Italian Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub