Pietro Frassi (before 1716–circa 1778) was an Italian painter of the late-

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active in his native

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

Biography

Frassi trained in Cremona with

Angelo Massarotti Angelo Massarotti (1653–1723) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Cremona. Biography Massarotti trained initially with Agostino Bonisoli, then in Rome with Carlo Cesi. The historian Titi (page 379) said he paint ...

from 1716, until the latter's death in 1723. he then moved to Rome. He painted a ''Miracle of St Vincent Ferrer'' for one of the chapels of the church of San Domenico, Cremona (church demolished in 1869).

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Year of birth unknown 1778 deaths Painters from Cremona Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Year of birth uncertain 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub