Giacinto Calandrucci was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

Originally from Palermo

Palermo

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, he moved to Rome

Rome

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 with the fellow Palermitaan painter and engraver Pietro del Pò

Pietro del Po

Pietro del Po was an Italian painter of the Baroque.He was born in Palermo, and studied under Domenichino at Naples. He painted for the churches at Palermo, and afterwards visited Rome, where among other works, he painted a picture of St. Leo, for La Madonna di Costantinopoli. He was more...

. Like many painters in Rome in his day, then entered the large and prolific studio of Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

. He afterwords worked under Giuseppe Passeri

Giuseppe Passeri

Giuseppe Passeri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Rome.Born the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Passeri, Giuseppe trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. Among the paintings by Giuseppe is St...

.

In the 1680s Calandrucci completed decorative frescoes of the Four Seasons in the Palazzo Lante; mythological frescoes in the gallery of the Palazzo Muti–Papazzurri; the decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Strozzi–Besso; and a ceiling fresco, and the Sacrifice of Ceres in the papal Villa Falconieri

Villa Falconieri

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 at Frascati

Frascati

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. He also painted idyllic pastoral scenes, among them two pictures at Burghley House

Burghley House

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, Stamford, England. He also painted two works for the main altar and the Cimini

Cimino family

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 Chapel of Roman church of Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi

Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi

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, a Virgin and Child with St Anne and Saints in frescoes and canvases in San Bonaventura (before 1686), a Holy Family with St Anne and St Anthony of Padua, both in San Paolino della Regola (c. 1700), and frescoes in Santa Maria dell’Orto (c. 1700–05). In 1705 he returned to Palermo, where he began the decoration of the oratory of San Lorenzo. He also painted for the church of San Salvatore, representing Virgin, with St. Basil and other Saints. He died at Palermo

Palermo

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. His brother Domenico and his nephew Giovanni Battista were painters of lesser renown.

He left behind an abundance of drawings on topics from both historical and religious subjects to acute daily observations.