Angelo Massarotti (1653–1723) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active in his native

Cremona Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...

Biography

Massarotti trained initially with

Agostino Bonisoli Agostino Bonisoli (1633–1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who was born and worked mainly in Cremona. He was the pupil of the slightly older painter Giovanni Battista Tortiroli, and afterward studied under a relation named Luig ...

, then in

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with

Carlo Cesi Carlo Cesio or Carlo Cesi (17 April 1622– 6 January 1682) was a Baroque-style painter and engraver of the Roman school. Biography Cesio was born in 1622 at Antrodoco in the present Province of Rieti, then part of the Roman States. He was br ...

. The historian Titi (page 379) said he painted a fresco depicting ''Christ with Santa Lugarda'' and other for the church of

San Salvatore in Lauro San Salvatore in Lauro is a Catholic church in central Rome, Italy. It is located on a piazza of the same name in the rione Ponte. It stands on Via Vecchiarelli, just south of the Lungotevere Tor di Nona and north of via dei Coronari. Within Rom ...

. This gained him admission to Accademia San Luca of Rome in 1680, when he returns to Cremona. In Cremona, he painted an ''Immaculate Conception'' for the church of Sant'Ilario, and a large canvas over the main door of the church of Sant’Agostino representing the ''Doctors of the church and founders of religious orders''. Pupils of Massarotti include

Giovanni Angelo Borroni Giovanni Angelo Borroni (1684–1772) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early- Neoclassic periods, active mainly in Milan and Cremona. Biography He was born in Cremona and died in Milan. He was the pupil of the painter Angelo Massar ...

, Pietro da Pietro, Sigismondo Benini. Pietro Frassi, and Bernardino Deho.La pittura cremonese
by Principe Bartolommeo de Soresina Vidoni, page 140.

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1653 births 1723 deaths Painters from Cremona Italian Baroque painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub