Giacinto Calandrucci (

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20 April 1646 – 22 February 1707, Palermo) was an Italian painter of the

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period. Originally from

, he moved to

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with his fellow Palermitan painter and engraver Pietro del Pò. Like many painters in Rome in his day, then entered the large and prolific studio of

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. He afterwards worked under

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. In the 1680s Calandrucci completed decorative frescoes of the ''Four Seasons'' in the Palazzo Lante; mythological frescoes in the gallery of the Palazzo Muti Papazzurri; the decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Strozzi-Besso; and a ceiling fresco, and the ''Sacrifice of Ceres'' in the papal

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. He also painted idyllic pastoral scenes, among them two pictures at Burghley House, Stamford, England. He also painted in Rome two works for the main altar and the Cimini Chapel in the church of

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, a ''Virgin and Child with St Anne and Saints'' in frescoes and canvases in San Bonaventura (before 1686), a ''Holy Family with St Anne'' and a ''St Anthony of Padua'', both in San Paolo alla Regola (c. 1700), and frescoes in

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(c. 1700–05). In 1705 he returned to Palermo, where he began the decoration of the Oratory of San Lorenzo. He also painted for the church of Santissimo Salvatore, representing ''The Virgin with St. Basil and other Saints''. He died at

. His brother Domenico and his nephew Giovanni Battista were painters of lesser renown. He left behind an abundance of drawings on topics from both historical and religious subjects to acute daily observations.image search
in

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References

''Transfiguration'' at the Cambridge Museum.Artnet Grove encyclopedia abstract
* 1646 births 1707 deaths Painters from Palermo 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Pupils of Carlo Maratta 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub