Orazio Riminaldi (5 September 1593 – 19 December 1630) was an Italian painter who painted mainly history subjects in a Caravaggist style.

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Riminaldi was born and died in

Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

. He was in Pisa first a pupil of the little known painter Rainero Alberghetti, and later studied with

Aurelio Lomi Aurelio Lomi (29 February 1556 – 1622) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early- Baroque periods, active mainly in his native town of Pisa, Tuscany. __NOTOC__ Biography He may have initially been trained by his father, Giovann ...

. No works from his early period survive. He moved to Rome sometime between 1610 and 1620. Here he underwent the influence of the Caravaggist movement most likely through

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, Bartolomeo Manfredi but also from Simon Vouet.Gianni Papi. "Riminaldi, Orazio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 2 May. 2016 Orazio Riminaldi - Portrait of Curzio Ceuli

Orazio Riminaldi - Portrait of Curzio Ceuli

An early work entitled ''Samson Killing the Philistines'', which he painted for the

Cathedral of Pisa Pisa Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Pisa) is a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the t ...

and completed in May 1622 shows the influence of

Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the ho ...

and

Guido Reni Guido Reni (; 4 November 1575 – 18 August 1642) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, although his works showed a classical manner, similar to Simon Vouet, Nicolas Poussin, and Philippe de Champaigne. He painted primarily religious ...

of the Emilian school of painting, combined with the naturalistic Caravaggesque style that he had developed in Rome. His knowledge of the work of contemporary French artists working in Rome is also evident in certain paintings attributed to him, such as the ''Daedalus and Icarus'', known in three versions (one of which is in the Wadsworth Atheneum). His ''Martyrdom of St. Cecilia'' dated to the early 1620s ( Uffizi, Florence) is regarded as his masterpiece. Riminaldi clearly took direct inspiration for this composition from Caravaggio's ''Martyrdom of St Matthew'' ( San Luigi dei Francesi in

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). He took from Caravaggio's earlier work the image of the plummeting angel and the violent gesture of the executioner. The ''Martyrdom of St. Cecilia'' shows further stylistic similarities with the works of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi and

Artemisia Gentileschi Artemisia Lomi or Artemisia Gentileschi (, ; 8 July 1593) was an Italian Baroque painter. Gentileschi is considered among the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, initially working in the style of Caravaggio. She was producing profess ...

. He clearly was also active as a portrait artist. He painted a portrait of Curzio Ceuli (c. 1627, private collection in Florence) in a Caravaggesque style not unlike that of Orazio Gentileschi and

Valentin de Boulogne Valentin de Boulogne (before 3 January 1591 – 19 August 1632), sometimes referred to as Le Valentin, was a French painter in the tenebrist style. Origins Valentin was born in Coulommiers, France, where he was baptised in the parish of Sai ...

. He died suddenly in 1630 in Pisa of the plague. His ''Assumption of the Virgin'' for the

was completed posthumously by his brother Girolamo. Among his pupils were his brother Giovanni Battista Riminaldi, Alessandro Cominotti and Giovanni Navarretti.Pisa illustrata nelle arti del disegno
Volume 2, by Alessandro da Morrona, page 513

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