Mario Righetti (born c. 1590) 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 was born at

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. He became a pupil of

Lucio Massari Lucio Massari (22 January 1569 – 3 November 1633) was an Italian painter of the School of Bologna. He can be described as painting during both Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. Life and work He was born in Bologna, where he initially a ...

. In Bologna, he painted an ''Archangel Michael'' for the church of San Guglielmo; a ''Christ appearing to the Magdalen'' for

San Giacomo Maggiore The Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore is an historic Roman Catholic church in Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy, serving a monastery of Augustinian friars. It was built starting in 1267 and houses, among the rest, the Bentivoglio Chapel, f ...

; an ''Adoration of the Magi'' for the church of Sant'Agnese; and a ''Nativity'' that once adorned the church of Santa Lucia (now deconsecrated).

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* 1590s births 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub