Lorenzo Sabatini was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Mannerist period from Bologna

Bologna

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A friend of Orazio Sammachini

Orazio Sammachini

Orazio Samacchini was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist style, active in Rome, Parma, and his native city.He was born and died in Bologna...

, he traveled to Florence to work with the studio of Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

by the early 1560-65. He was elected member of the Florentine Academy. He returned to Bologna by 1570, and then traveled to Rome, again to work under Vasari in the Sala Regia of the Vatican (1572-73). After Vasari's death, Sabatini was until his own premature death a superintendent of works in the Vatican under Pope Gregory XIII.