Ercole Graziani the Younger
- Ercole Graziani the Younger
Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688-1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.
He was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his "St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire" (San Pietro in Bologna) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome. He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively "St. Simone Stoch receives a scapular from the Virgin" and "St. Pietro Thoma" for the first chapels to left and right of the Church of the Carmine in Medicina [ [http://www.comune.medicina.bo.it/storia%20e%20territorio/cultura.html| City of Medicina site.] ] .
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* [http://www.europeanpaintings.com/exhibits/xviiicent/grazibio.htm Graziani biography.]
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