Orazio Frezza 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, born and active in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, He was instructed by

Giovanni Battista Benaschi ''The Deploration of Abel'', Madrid.html"_;"title="Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando_(Madrid">Real_Academia_de_Bellas_Artes_de_San_Fernando_(Madrid). Giovanni_Battista_Benaschi,_or_Beinaschi,_(1636–1688)_was_an_Real_Academia_de_Bel ...

. He afterwards studied the works 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

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoem ...

, whom he imitated with some success. He painted for a church in Naples, a ''Calvary'' now exhibited in

Castel Capuano Castel Capuano is a castle in Naples, southern Italy. It takes its name from the fact that it was at that point in the city walls where the road led out to the city of Capua. The castle is at the southwest end of via dei Tribunali, and until re ...

References

* 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Neapolitan people Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub