Giuseppe Sacchi (17th Century) 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. ''David in prayer obtains the cessation of the plague''
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne The son of the famous

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors ...

, Giuseppe painted both historical canvases and portraits. He became a friar minor and died young.

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* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub