Angelo Massarotti

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Angelo Innocente Massarotti (* 1653 in Cremona , † 1723 ) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque , who was mainly active in Cremona and Rome.

Madonna with Child and St. John
Fresco, San Benedetto Monastery Church, Cremona

biography

Angelo Massarotti is a Cremonese painter who worked between the 17th and 18th centuries. In the school of Agostino Bonisoli he got to know the elements of Bolognese classicism, then in 1675 he went to Rome with Carlo Cesi, where he studied and copied the Vatican frescoes by Raphael and Giulio Romano .

He met Carlo Maratti and received the commission for the church of Santa Anastasia (1678) as well as for the fresco decoration and five paintings for the chapel of Santa Lutgarda in the church of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome (1679-1680).

In 1680 he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca and returned to Cremona in 1681. Of the five paintings in the oratory of Santa Maria Annunziata (Arco-ospedale of Santo Spirito in Sassia ), the first was completed in Rome in 1680 and the other four in Cremona.

After various trips and work in northern Italy, Angelo Massarotti settled permanently in Cremona, where he died in 1723 and, according to his last wishes, was buried in the church of the Franciscan monastery of Corpus Domini.

His students included Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Pietro Frassi and Sigismondo Benini.

Works

Cremona
  • St. Augustine meditates on the mystery of the Trinity. , Presbytery of San Agostino
  • The Crowned Virgin with Monica and Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. , Sant Ilario Church
  • Recovery from the Flight into Egypt , oil on canvas, Church of San Paolo (beginning)
Roman period painting
  • Allegory of Luck and Hercules at the Crossroads , Palazzo del Commendatore, Ospidale di S. Spirito, Rome
  • Madonna and Child
Painting of the Cremonic period
  • Madonna tramples the snake with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (and the buyer's family), Church of San Ilario
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt and Adoration of the Shepherds
  • Madonna with Child and St. John , oil on canvas, 90 × 74 cm

literature

  • Giuseppe Grasselli: Abecedario biografico dei pittori, scultori ed architetti cremonesi . Milan 1827 (Italian, google.at ).
  • L. Bandera: Angelo Massarotti I Pittori a Cremona dal Romanico al Settecento . Ed .: M. Gregori. Milan 1990, p. 297-298 (Italian).
  • C. Bruno: Due tele dipinte a Roma da Angelo Massarotti per giovanni Maria Lancisi . In: Bollettino storico cremonese . tape 11 , 2004, p. 225-233 (Italian).
  • P. Bonometti: Angelo Massarotti . In: Omobono: la figura del santo nell'iconografia, secoli XIII-XIX, catalog . Crémona (Italian).
  • Don Desiderio Arisi: Accademia de 'Pittori Cremonesi con alcuni Scultori ed Architetti pur Cremonesi . (Italian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arisi
  2. ↑ Bonometti p. 84
  3. ↑ Bruno pp. 228-233
  4. ↑ Bandera pp. 297-298

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personal data
SURNAME Massarotti, Angelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massarotti, Angel Innocente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Cremona
DATE OF DEATH 1723
Place of death Cremona