Francesco Ragusa (1590s – 1655) was an Italian painter of the late-

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

and early-

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 mainly in Rome. *Not to be confused with Italian actor Francesco Ragusa of

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Biography

He was born in

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and pupil of

Giuseppe Cesari Giuseppe Cesari (14 February 1568 – 3 July 1640) was an Italian Mannerist painter, also named Il Giuseppino and called ''Cavaliere d'Arpino'', because he was created ''Cavaliere di Cristo'' by his patron Pope Clement VIII. He was much patronize ...

in Rome, but soon also influenced by

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

. He is mentioned by

Giovanni Baglione Giovanni Baglione (1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. He is best remembered for his acrimonious and damaging involvement with the slightly younger artist Caravaggio and ...

in his biographies. He painted a

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altarpiece depicting the ''Trinity and Saints Bonaventure and Carlo Borromeo'' for the church of Cappuccini a Colpersìto in

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. He also painted a ''Mystical Marriage of St Catherine with St Charles Borromeo'' (1618) for the Diocese of

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. He painted a ''Coronation of the Virgin and St Michael Archagel'' (1651) for the Olivetan church of the Santissimi Trinità in Giuliana. Most of Ragusa's Roman paintings were lost, except the ''Portrait of

Gaspare Celio Gaspare Celio (1571 in Rome–November 24, 1640 in Rome) was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early- Baroque period, active mainly in his native city of Rome. Celio was the pupil of Circignani, according to Baglione, but of Cristof ...

'' (circa 1640), which was inserted in his funeral monument at

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References

1590s births 1655 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Mannerist painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Sicily {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub