Camillo Rizzi (or Ricci) (1590–1626)Treccani
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Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period, active mainly in

Ferrara Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...

. He was a pupil of the painter

Ippolito Scarsella Scarsellino or Ippolito Scarsella (1550 (or 1551) – 28 October 1620) was an Italian mid-to-late sixteenth century reformist painter and one of the most important representatives of the School of Ferrara. His landscapes of both sacred and secu ...

. Born at

, he was mainly active producing altarpieces for the churches of

including a ''S. Vincenzo'' and ''Santa Margherita'' for the cathedral ; an ''Annunciation'' for the church of Spirito Santo ; and his ceiling in the church of S. Niccolo, representing in eighty-four compartments, the ''Life and miracles of San Niccolo''. Ricci died at

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* 1590 births 1626 deaths Painters from Ferrara 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub