Siro Baroni (1678 – 31 December 1746) was an Italian painter of the late-
Baroque
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period, active in
Mantua
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In 2016, Mantua was designated as the "Italian Capital of Culture". In 2 ...
.
Biography
Of
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origin, he lived in the 18th century and seems to have operated only in the hometown. Little is known of his biography, and many of his works were already lost at the beginning of the last century. In a chapel of the church of St. Ambrogio there existed his ''Christ Shown to the People'', a work lost during the destruction of the temple at the end of the eighteenth century. According to ancient guides, in the
basilica of Sant'Andrea in Mantua was Baroni's work as well a panel with ''the
Blessed Virgin of the Rosary'', and in the church of
St. Camillo de Lellis the ''
Saints Crispino and Crispiniano'', no longer traceable now.
Unknown remains the fate of a painting mentioned by ancient sources as existing at the Mantuan church of
St. Catherine and representing the ''Virgin on the Throne with the Child,
St. Giuseppe, St.
Aloysius Gonzaga
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and the
Guardian Angel
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''. Among the surviving works we can mention: the canvas, placed in the town church of
St. Barnaba, depicting the ''Death of Saint
Giuliana Falconieri'' (dated 1732, as shown in documents from the parish archives); the painting, in the parish church of Castelnuovo (
Asola), representing a ''Madonna among the Saints Antonio and Imerio,'' signed and dated 1748; the canvas, located in the parish church of
Acquanegra sul Chiese, depicting the ''Virgin among the Saints Luigi Gonzaga,
Carlo Borromeo
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,
Vincenzo Ferreri and
Francesco Saverio'', signed and dated 1751.
He was an associate at the Academy of Fine Arts of Mantua since 1754. He painted an ''
Ecce Homo
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'' for the former chapel of Sant'Ambrogio (destroyed in 1789). Siro also painted Pietro and Andrea's call in 1760, displayed at the
Biblioteca Teresiana in Mantua.
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1678 births
1746 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Mantua
18th-century Italian male artists
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