Carlo Sacchi (1617–1706) 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. He was born in

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

and trained with a painter Carlo Antonio Rossi in

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

,Filippo De Boni, ''Biografia degli artisti: Volume unico'', Venezia 1840 then traveled to Rome before settling in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

. There he imitated a style recalling

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

. He was also an engraver. Sacchi died in Pavia. One of his pupils was Carlo Girolamo Bersotti.

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* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Artists from Pavia 1617 births 1706 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub