Benedetto Orsi (died 1680) was an
Italian
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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.
Biography
Orsi was born in
Pescia
Pescia () is an Italian city in the province of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy.
It is located in a central zone between the cities Lucca and Florence, on the banks of the river of the same name.
History
Archaeological excavations have suggest ...
in Tuscany. He was a pupil of
Baldassare Franceschini
Baldassare Franceschini, called Il Volterrano after his birth place Volterra and, to distinguish him from Ricciarelli, Il Volterrano Giuniore (16116 January 1689) was an Italian late Baroque painter and draughtsman active principally around Flo ...
(''Il Volterrano''. He painted a ''San Giovanni Evangelista'' for the Oratory of the Misericordia, situated adjacent to the parish church of
Santi Stefano e Niccolao of Pescia,. He also painted some lunettes in the church of
Sant Maria del Letto in Pistoia.
Cenni biografici dei personaggi illustri della città di Pescia e suoi dintorni
by Giuseppe Ansaldi, (1872), pages 329-330.
References
1680 deaths
Italian Baroque painters
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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