Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli
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Italy
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painter of the early 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...
era in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
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He was born in Morazzone
Morazzone
Morazzone is a comune of c. 4,000 inhabitants in the province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 40 km northwest of Milan and about 6 km south of Varese....
, near Varese
Varese
Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :...
, Lombardy
Lombardy
Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
, the son of a mason, who soon after his birth moved to Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
. There he was influenced by Ventura Salimbeni
Ventura Salimbeni
Ventura di Archangelo Salimbeni was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker and among the last representatives of a style influenced by the earlier Sienese School of Quattrocento-Renaissance....
and Giuseppe Cesari, known as Cavalier D'Arpino and began to work in a Mannerist
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
style. In Rome he painted some canvases and also his first frescoes (Adoration by the Magi and a Visitation) in San Silvestro in Capite
San Silvestro in Capite
The Church of Saint Sylvester in Capite is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and titular church in Rome dedicated to Pope Saint Sylvester I. Built in the 8th century as a shrine for the relics of the saints and martyrs from the Catacombs, the church is the National church of Great Britain.The Latin...
(1596).
He returned to Milan in 1597. In Lombardy, he painted frescoes for the Cappella del Rosario in San Vittore in Varese
Varese
Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :...
(1599), and worked in some of the Sacri Monti of the Alps. This activity began with the Ascent to Calvary (1602-1606) chapel in the Sacro Monte of Varallo where he was influenced by Gaudenzio Ferrari
Gaudenzio Ferrari
Gaudenzio Ferrari was a Northern Italian painter and sculptor of the Renaissance.-Biography:Gaudenzio was born at Valduggia in the Valsesia in the Duchy of Milan. Valduggia is now in the Province of Vercelli in Piedmont. He is said to have first learned the art of painting at Vercelli from...
and developed a more dramatic style. In 1608-1609 he completed the Flagellation chapel in the Sacro Monte of Varese
Varese
Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :...
then returned to Varallo for the Ecce Homo chapel (1610-13). Last of this serie is the Porziuncola chapel (1616-20) in Sacro Monte of Orta
Orta
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. His other frescoes include the Cappella della Buona Morte in San Gaudenzio in Novara
Novara
Novara is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With c. 105,000 inhabitants, it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is an important crossroads for commercial traffic along the routes from Milan to Turin...
and some Prophets in the Piacenza Cathedral, completed after his death by the Bolognese painter Guercino.
He also painted altarpieces for many churches in Northern Italy and canvases for private collectors. He collaborated with Giovanni Battista Crespi
Giovanni Battista Crespi
Giovanni Battista Crespi , called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect,-Biography:...
(Il Cerano) and Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Giulio Cesare Procaccini was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan.-Biography:Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Carlo Antonio Procaccini...
in the painting of the Quadroni of San Carlo Borromeo for the Duomo of Milan. Among the pupils and followers of il Morazzone were Francesco Cairo
Francesco Cairo
Francesco Cairo was an Italian painter active in Baroque Lombardy and Piedmont.He was born and died in Milan. It is not known where he obtained his early training though he is strongly influenced by the circle of il Morazzone, in works such as the Saint Teresa altarpiece in the Certosa di Pavia.In...
, Stefano & Gioseffo Danedi
Gioseffo Danedi
Gioseffo Danedi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.He was born at Treviglio, and was the brother of Giovanni Stefano Danedi, and together, they were known as the Montalti. Both received instruction from the Milanese painter Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli...
, Isidoro Bianchi
Isidoro Bianchi
Isidoro Bianchi called da Campione was an Italian painter of the Baroque period....
, Giovanni Paolo
Giovanni Paolo Recchi
Giovanni Paolo Recchi was an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance period.Born in Como. He worked in Turin and the Duchy of Savoy in fresco, with the assistance of his nephew Giovanni Antonio and his brother Giovanni Battista Recchi. Active in 1560.-References:...
& Giovanni Battista Recchi
Giovanni Battista Recchi
Giovanni Battista Recchi was an Italian painter of the 17th century, a pupil of Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, and brother of Giovanni Paolo Recchi. Ho became well-known at Turin, where he was working about 1660. He painted historical subjects, and was assisted in his studio by his nephew Giovanni...
, Paolo Caccianiga, Tommaso Formenti, and Giambatista Pozzi.