Scipione Sacco
Scipione Sacco (or Sacchi) (1495–1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active near or in Cesena.
Life
[edit]Born in the town of Sogliano al Rubicone, in his youth he came into contact with Ramberto Malatesta, Count of Sogliano, and this influenced his artistic and cultural education.[1] However, he and his family were exiled because his father tried to poison Ramberto Malatesta.[2]
He painted a Pope St Gregory for the cathedral of Cesena in 1545.[3] For the church of San Domenico of Cesena, he painted a Death of St Peter Martyr.[4] He is referred to as a likely pupil or strongly influenced by Raphael.[5]
He died in Cesena.
References
[edit]- ^ "Scipione Sacco", Comune di Sogliano al Rubicone
- ^ "Scipione Sacco", Cesena Municipal Art Gallery
- ^ Lanzi, Luigi. The History of Painting in Italy from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century, H.G. Bohn, 1854, p. 56
- ^ Il microcosmo della pittura; by Francesco Scannelli; Cesena (1657); page 183.
- ^ Fondazione Zeri entry.
Sources
[edit]- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 436.