Terenzio Terenzi

Terenzio Terenzi (1575–1621) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. Born near Pesaro, he is also known as "Terenzio da Urbino" or "il Rondolino". He was a pupil of the painter Federigo Barocci. There is an altarpiece by Terenzi in the Cathedral of Sant'Andrea, a "Baptism of Constantine" in the quadreria di San Costanzo [ [http://www.lavalledelmetauro.it/standard.php?lingua=it&id_sezione=8&id_sottosezione=14&id_sottosottosezione=10&record=5557 La Valle del Metauro ] ] , and an "Assumption of the Virgin" (1621) in the church of the Cappuccini in Rome [ [http://www.cappucciniviaveneto.it/cappuccini_ing.html Cappuccini_ing ] ] . According to Baglione, Terenzi visited Rome, where he was favored with the protection of Cardinal Montalto. Having practiced a deceptions on his benefactor by imposing on him a picture painted by himself for a work of Raphael, he was disgraced [*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II: L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 560| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=] . There is a picture of his own composition in the church of San Silvestro, in Rome, representing the Virgin and Infant Christ, with several Saints.

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*cite book | first= Giovanni|last= Baglione| year=1641| title= Le Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a’ tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642. ("Lives of the painters, sculptors, architects, and engravers during the papacies of Gregory XII in 1572 to Urban VIII in 1642")| editor = Giovanni Battista Passari | pages= page 149| publisher= 1731 edition (Naples); Digitized by Googlebooks | id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?id=bVsGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Baglione | authorlink=

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