Vincenzo Manenti (also known as Vincenzio Manenti) (c. 1600–1674) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
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period.
He was born, worked and died in
Canemorto (now
Orvinio
Orvinio is a (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Latium, located about northeast of Rome and about south of Rieti. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia
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) in the
region of Sabina and
province of Rieti
The province of Rieti () is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Lazio region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rieti. Established in 1927, it has an area of with a total population of 157,887 people as of 2017. There are 73 ''comuni'' (: '' ...
where he had been first a pupil of his father, Ascanio Manenti, but then apprenticed with
Giuseppe Cesari
Giuseppe Cesari (14 February 1568 – 3 July 1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter, also named Il Giuseppino and called ''Cavaliere d'Arpino'', because he was created ''Cavaliere di Cristo'' by his patron Pope Clement VIII. He was much patronize ...
and
Domenichino
Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters.
Life
Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoe ...
. He painted several works, among them some frescoes and the portraits of cardinals
Giulio Roma and
Marcello Santacroce, for
Tivoli Cathedral and a ''St. Xavier'' in the Jesuits' church, which no longer exists. He also frescoed the church of
Santa Maria dei Raccomandati, Orvinio. His paintings in the church of
Santa Maria Nova, Toffia were destroyed by a fire.
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1600s births
1674 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Baroque painters
People from the Province of Rieti
Painters from Lazio
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