Stefano Amedei (20 January 1580 – 20 January 1644) was an Italian painter of the early

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period, who painted

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and sacred paintings.

Biography

Born in

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; he trained there with Giulio Cesare Angeli, and developed a studio in

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. Lupattelli claims he studied perspective under the mathematician Lemme Rossi. Amedei later opened a studio/school in Perugia. He painted for the chapel of the Madonna Addolorata in the church of Santa Maria Nuova; an altarpiece of the ''Sorrowful Virgin before the Cross'', and two lateral paintings depicting the ''Presentation of Mary at the Temple'' and the ''Marriage of Mary'', and smaller paintings of ''Jesus with the crown of thorns'' and ''St Paul''. He painted the main altarpiece (1632) for the church of

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, depicting the ''Virgin in Glory with the Jesus child, and Saints Benedict, Romuald, Severo, Andrea, Agata, and Lucia''. For the Public library, he painted a ''Shield of the City with the Virgin and Child and St Catherine''. He is attributed a canvas copy of Raphael's ''God the Father and Seraphim''.Storia della pittura in Perugia e delle arti
by Angelo Lupattelli (1895), page 66-67. Among his pupils was Fabio della Cornia.

References

* * 1580 births 1644 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Perugia Italian still life painters Umbrian painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub