Pietro Faccini

Pietro Faccini or Facini (15621 April 1602), was an Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker.Pietro Faccini
at the British Museum He was active near his birthplace of Bologna working in a style bridging Mannerism and the nascent Baroque.

Life

Born in Bologna he only started to study painting when he was already older.National Gallery Biography
/ref> He was initially involved in commerce but apprenticed in the Carracci academy with Ludovico and Annibale Carracci commencing around 1583.Pietro Faccini Biography
at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art In 1594, he left the Carracci academy and set up his own academy possibly to develop his own style.Giuseppe Macpherson, ''Portrait of Pietro Faccini''
at the Royal Collection

Annibale Castelli, Agostino Masucci, Domenico Maria Mirandola, and Giovanni Maria Tamburini were among his pupils.

Works

Paintings

His documented painterly output consists of about a dozen works. His style departs from the linear "Roman" quality assumed by his mentors, and has a more sparkling quality, influenced by Tintoretto, Correggio, and Bassano. He was also inspired by the rich color of Venetian painting and the exaggerated forms of Parmigianino. In 1590, he painted ''The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence'', now in the church of San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna. The warm, rich colour recalls the Carracci paintings in the Palazzi Fava and Magnani in Bologna, while the dense, thickly applied paint is reminiscent of Venetian painting. Faccini’s creation of a space teeming with bizarre humanity, with exaggerated facial expressions, however, shows a very personal taste already distanced from the academic idealizations of his early training.

Venetian influence is even more striking in the light-saturated colour, reminiscent of Titian, of the ''Martyrdom of Saint Stephen'' (Bologna, Budrio, Santa Maria del Borgo). The style of Parma, on the other hand, can be seen in the darting rhythms, suggestive of Parmigianino, of the ''Virgin of Loreto'' and ''Saints Bonaventura, Agatha, Lucy and Blaise'' (Mirandola, Palazzo Comunale), of the ''Rest on the Flight into Egypt'' (Guastalla, Palazzo Vescovile) and ''Christ and the Virgin Appearing to Saints Francis and Antoninus'' (San Domenico, Bologna), all painted after 1593.

Other Venetian elements, derived from Jacopo Tintoretto, occur in the patchy brushwork and the division of colours into warm and cold hues in the ''Annunciation'' ( Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna), considered to be one of the artist’s finest works. Faccini’s knowledge of the work of Antonio da Correggio is evident in a series of paintings of c. 1600 , characterized by a greater freedom of execution and softer, more fluid brushwork. Correggio’s influence is perceptible especially in the loose, expansive style of the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' (Bologna, Santa Maria dei Servi) and in the delicate use of paint in the ''Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine'' (Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina). The same influence can be seen in the beautiful painting of ''Saint Francis Receiving the Child from the Hands of the Virgin'' (Modena, priv. col.) and the small painting on copper of the ''Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine'' (Bologna, Rac. Molinari–Pradelli).

Faccini’s last work is perhaps the ''Virgin with Saint Dominic'' (Bologna, Quarto Inferiore, Parrochiale): the colouring is dark and sober, but the greater luminosity and richer texture seem to presage the work of Domenico Fetti.

Prints and drawings

It is likely that Faccini studied printmaking in the Carracci academy. He only left a few prints, among which is the ''Saint Francis Receiving the Christ Child in the Presence of the Virgin''. The print is lightly etched using fine lines which create an ethereal atmosphere, befitting Francis's heavenly vision. In his prints Faccini developed the taste for the grotesque already noted in his paintings. Etchings such as the ''Blind Beggar'' and the ''Blind Man Guided by a Dog'' (both Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale), based on a drawing by Annibale Carracci, emphasize the most brutal and extravagant aspects of reality.

He was more prolific as a draughtsman working in a variety of media, including pen and ink, watercolor, and red chalk.Pietro Faccini Biography
at the Stephen Ongpin Fine Art His drawings were reportedly abundant, and there are examples in many major museums. Most are sketches from the nude, usually executed with rapid, restless strokes, in pen and watercolour with red chalk. Nine drawings (Florence, Uffizi) are all that remain from the rich collection owned by Leopoldo de' Medici.

Gallery

Pietro Faccini - Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine - Google Art Project.jpg,
Pietro faccini, annunciazione, 1597-1600 ca. 03 da pinacoteca nazionale di bologna.jpg,
Pietro Faccini, martirio di san lorenzo, 1590, 03.jpg,
Ubekendt - Pietro Faccini, Hvile på flugten til Egypten, , KKSgb10280, Statens Museum for Kunst.jpg,
Pietro Faccini, Saint Francis with the Christ Child, 1562-1602, NGA 53441.jpg,
Seated Female Figure MET DP809455.jpg,
File:Christ and the Virgin Appearing to Saint Francis MET DP809456.jpg,

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1560s births
17th-century deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Painters from Bologna
Italian Mannerist painters