- Lucio Massari
Lucio Massari (
22 January ,1569 -3 November ,1633 ) was an Italian painter of theSchool of Bologna . He can be described as painting during bothMannerist and early-Baroque periods.He was born in Bologna, where he initially apprenticed with an unknown painter by the name of Spinelli, then the Mannerist painter
Bartolomeo Passarotti , but also worked withBartolomeo Cesi . In 1592, he joined theCarracci studio or the "Academy of the Incamminati", and remained attached toLudovico Carracci for many years. In 1604, he worked with Ludovico to fresco "Stories of San Mauro, San Benedetto and others" in the cloister ofSan Michele in Bosco . In 1607, he collaborates withLionello Spada andFrancesco Brizio in frescoes for the Palazzo Bonfioli, in Bologna. In 1610, he visits Rome, remains under the patronage of Cardinal Facchinetti, and befriendsDomenichino . In 1612, he completes the frescoes left unfinished byBernardino Poccetti in a chapel of theCertosa di Galluzzo , nearFlorence . He painted the main altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria in Guadi inSan Giovanni in Persiceto . He returns to Bologna in 1614, and soon travels withFrancesco Albani to work inMantua . He is said to have spent so much time in hunting, fishing, and the delights of the countryside, that he neglected painting. Though his biography shows him to be exceedingly prolific in altarpieces. Among his pupils wasSebastiano Brunetti ,Antonio Randa , andFra Bonaventura Bisi .External links
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*cite book | author= Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini| year=1841-1843| title= Vite dei Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi (two volumes)| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages= pages 102-106 (Parte Quinta)| publisher= Tipi Governativi alla Volpe ed Nobili; Original from Oxford Library, digitized June 26, 2006 | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-GABAAAAQAAJ&dq=pittori&as_brr=1 | authorlink=
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