Annibale Mazzuoli (

Siena Siena ( , ; lat, Sena Iulia) is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena. The city is historically linked to commercial and banking activities, having been a major banking center until the 13th and 14th centuri ...

, 1658 –

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, 17 December 1743) was an Italian

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. He was born to a pedigree of artists. His father was the architect Dionisio. His brothers include sculptors Giuseppe Mazzuoli and Antonio Giovanni; architect

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; and the wood-carver Agostino. The sculptor,

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, was his nephew, and the son of Antonio Giovanni. Annibale began his career in

, and is described by

Luigi Lanzi Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Biography Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated a ...

as a ''fresco painter of rapid execution, but little merit''.

Works in or near Siena

In the church of San Martino, Annibale frescoed the choir and the ceiling of the dome (1697). An altar of

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hosts a canvas depicting the ''Ecstasy of Saint Jerome'', dated 1671. In the church and convent of Santa Margherita in Castelvecchio, owned by the Contrada of the Pantera, ha painted the ceiling fresco in collaboration with

Giuseppe Nicola Nasini Giuseppe Nicola Nasini (January 25, 1657– July 3, 1736) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Tuscany. Biography Born in Castel del Piano, now in the Province of Grosseto, Giuseppe was the son of the painter Frances ...

, while in ' Oratory of St. Anthony he painted altarpieces of ''St Bartholomew'' and ''St Sebastian''. For the Certosa of Siena he painted a ''San Bruno''. A fresco of the ''Meeting of

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and Henry IV'', painted in 1695, is exhibited in the Palazzo Publico of Siena. Other frescoes are in the Church of San Vigilio. As with the frescoes of ''Life of San Gerardo'' can be found in Oratorio of St. Louis and Gerard. In the church of

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is one of his canvases ''The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena''. Other frescoes and altarpieces in the city were painted by him for the Church of Maria Santissima del Rosario, the Oratory of San Bernardino al Prato, the church of San Francesco. Outside the city, he painted at

Colle di Val d'Elsa Colle di Val d'Elsa or Colle Val d'Elsa is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Siena, Tuscany, central Italy. It has a population of c. 21,600 . Its name means "Hill of Elsa Valley", where Elsa is the name of the river which crosses it and ...

for the Duomo and the church of San Pietro. He also painted in the church of Sant’Agostino in

San Gimignano San Gimignano () is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of ...

, and the Duomo of

Montepulciano Montepulciano () is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and ''comune'' in the Italian province of Siena in southern Tuscany. It sits high on a limestone ridge, east of Pienza, southeast of Siena, southeast of Florence, and north of Rome b ...

Later work in Rome

Mazzuoli was called to

by Pope

Clement XI Pope Clement XI ( la, Clemens XI; it, Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721. Clement XI w ...

where he worked, among other projects, on the restoration of several paintings in the

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. He is somewhat infamous for a major 1710-1712 restoration of the frescoes by

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

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. Annibale and his son, Giovanni Antonio Bartolomeo, used Greek Wine and sponges to clean the frescoes. One of Mazzuoli's pupils in Rome was Giovanni Pietro Cremoni.

References

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