Sforza Compagnoni (7 April 1584 – 1640) was an Italian author and painter.

Biography

He was born in

Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region. It has a population of about 41,564. History The historical city centre is on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza ri ...

, where his father was a judge and intellectual, born in to a prominent local family. It is unclear with whom he had training as a painter, the sources disagree. Luigi Lanzi identified

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, Malvasia,

Francesco Albani Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active in Bologna (1591–1600), Rome (1600–1609), Bologna (1609), Viterbo (1609–1610), Bologna (1610), Rome (1610–1617), ...

, and the historian Pagnanelli,

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

. All however developed from the Bolognese-Roman circle of painters emerging from the studio or followers of

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and

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

. Compagnoni moved to Rome where he became a professor (academic) of the

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. He was also named Knight or ''Cavaliere of the Order of Santo Stefano d’Ungheria'' in 1629. In 1628 he was admitted into the Order of the Knights of Malta. Most of his paintings, except for a few religious subjects in churches, have been lost or destroyed. He is mainly identified as the author of the heraldic shield for the Accademia dei Catenati in Macerata. Others attribute other engravings of the same format, for example, he may have provided some of the engravings for the book by Amico Ricci for his biography of artists in the area of the ''Marca di Ancona''. He also contributed to the decoration of the church of San Giovanni in Macerata.Beni Culturali Marche
He painted a ''Birth of Mary'' for the

Macerata Cathedral Macerata Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale di Macerata; Duomo di Macerata; Cattedrale di San Giuliano) is a Renaissance-style, Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the St Julian in the town of Macerata, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy. His ...

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Italian Baroque painters 16th-century Italian painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 1584 births 1640 deaths {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub