Fabrizio Santafede

Fabrizio Santafede (c. 1560–1635) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods. He painted in a late-Mannerist style. [Freedburg, p. 356.] He was a pupil of his father, the painter Francesco Santafede, and later a pupil of Francesco Curiacitation
first =
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year = 1887
title = Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
editor = John Denison Champlin and Charles Callahan Perkins
pages = 112
publisher = C. Scribner's sons
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url = http://books.google.com/books?id=RQYFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA112&lpg=RA1-PA112
authorlink = ] and Andrea SabbatiniFact|date=January 2008. Although he was born and died in Naples, he traveled extensively, including Bologna, Florence, Rome, and Venice in his study of the great masters. He became a merchant of antiquities and paintings himself. He painted extensively in Naples, including an "Assumption" and "Coronation of the Virgin" for Santa Donna Regina Nuova. He also created "Madonna with Saints" (1595). The Baroque painter Massimo Stanzione is mentioned as one of his pupils.

Legend has it that during the sack of Naples in 1647 by insurgents under Masaniello two halls that he had painted were spared due to respect for Santafede.

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*cite book | first= Rudolf|authorlink=Rudolf Wittkower|last= Wittkower| year=1993| title= Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750| chapter= | editor= | others=1980 | pages= | publisher= Penguin Books