Giuseppe Arrighi (1642 in

Volterra Volterra (; Latin: ''Volaterrae'') is a walled mountaintop town in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its history dates from before the 8th century BC and it has substantial structures from the Etruscan, Roman, and Medieval periods. History Volter ...

– 1706 in Volterra) 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 trained as 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 ...

. He painted mainly religious works in local churches, including the church of Sant’Andrea, San Pietro, San Francesco, San Giusto, and San Michele. He was buried in the church of the Ospedale. Arrhigi painted an altarpiece of ''Saints Antonio da Padua, Dominic, Thomas Acquinas, and Francis of Assisi'' for the Pieve of Santa Maria at Chianni. He also painted a ''St Anthony of Padua for the Cathedral of Volterra. Illustrazione sulla cattedrale di Volterra
by Gaetano Leoncini, (1869), page 128.

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17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters 1642 births 1706 deaths People from Volterra Italian Baroque painters Painters from Tuscany 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub