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Sante Vandi (1653–1716) was an Italian portrait painter of the
Sante Vandi (1653–1716) was an Italian portrait painter of the 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. He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani. He is also known as ''Santino da' Ritratti''. In early life he painted at Bologna, but was afterwards employed at Mantua, and other cities in Central Italy. He had constant commissions, and left a great number of portraits, chiefly of a small size. Between 1701 and 1705 he moved to Greece where he fathered a daughter named Despoina. He died at Loreto.
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* 1653 births 1716 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub