Sigismondo Foschi, also called Sigismondo da Faenza (active 1520–1532) was an Italian painter of the
Renaissance
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period, born and active in
Faenza. He was likely a pupil of
Giovanni Antonio Sogliani
Giovanni Antonio Sogliani (1492 – 17 July 1544) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Florence.
Life and Work
Giorgio Vasari in his ''Vite'', the main source for Sogliani's biography, claimed that the painter had appr ...
.
As a young man in 1520, he assisted his father in completing an altarpiece in a chapel in
San Francesco in Faenza (now lost). Sigismondo's father, Antonio, was a gold and silversmith. Sigismondo painted an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' (1522) for the church of Santa Maria della Terra at
Solarolo
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Solarolo borders the following municipalities: Bagnara d ...
. He painted a ''Madonna and child with saints'' (1527) for the church of
San Bartolomeo in Faenza. Other sundry works are assigned to the painter without definitive attribution. An altarpiece of ''Madonna and child with Saints Paul, John the Baptist, Benedict (?), Sebastian, Catherine and Apollonia'', originally from the church of
Santa Maria ad Nives, is found in the Pinacoteca of Faenza.
Documents establish that he had died by 1536.
Entry by Stefania Macioce on Sigismondo Foschi in Dizionario Biografico – Treccani
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References
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16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
People from Faenza
Italian Renaissance painters
Year of birth unknown
16th-century deaths