Marco Antonio Bassetti (1586–1630) was an Italian painter.

Life

He was born in

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, and was a pupil of Felice Ricci. He then went to Venice where he was particularly influenced by the works of

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, Veronese and

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. He is known to have been in Rome in 1616, and may have arrived there two years earlier. In Rome he came under the influence of the paintings of Caravaggio and

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. On his return to

he painted a ''St. Peter and Saints'' for the church of San Tomaso and a ''Coronation of the Virgin'' for Sant' Anastasia. He died from the

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in 1630. Among his pupils were Fra SempliceBryan 1886 and

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. His ''Dead Christ supported by the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene'' (c. 1616), painted on slate, is in the collection of the

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, Cambridge.

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* 1586 births 1630 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Caravaggisti Painters from Verona 17th-century deaths from plague (disease) {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub