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Marco Marchetti (c. 1528 – 1588) was an Italian painter of the late-

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

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, ...

period. Born in

Faenza Faenza (, , ; rgn, Fènza or ; la, Faventia) is an Italian city and comune of 59,063 inhabitants in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated southeast of Bologna. Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed eart ...

, he is also known as ''Marco da Faenza''. He painted an ''Adoration by the shepherds'' (1567) originally in the church of the confraternity of Santa Maria dell'Angelo, but now in the pinacoteca of Faenza. He also painted along with

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

a series of frescoes in the Palazzo Vecchio representing the ''Life of Hercules''. He painted an altarpiece representing the ''Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria'' (1580) in the church of Sant'Antonio in Faenza. Corrado Ricci describes him as an artist in

Ravenna Ravenna ( , , also ; rgn, Ravèna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy. It was the capital city of the Western Roman Empire from 408 until its collapse in 476. It then served as the cap ...

''whose little narrative scenes, crowded with figures, and whose lively "

grotesques Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...

" were appreciated and sought after both in Rome and Florence''.Art in Northern Italy
by Corrado Ricci; editor: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (1911); page 322.

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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 ...

p. 21. *Daniela Grandini ''La pittura devozionale di Marco Marchetti artista faentino del cinquecento'' (''Devotional Paintings by Marco Marchetti, Faventine Artist of the 1500s''), Cesena: Stilgraf, 2005. *Alessandra Bigi Iotti, Giulio Zavatta ''La "Conversione di San Paolo" di Marco Marchetti ai Servi'', ''L'Arco'', 7/2009, 2/3, p. 40-49. 1520s births 1588 deaths People from Faenza 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Mannerist painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub