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Vincenzo Spisanelli (1595–1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in
Vincenzo Spisanelli (1595–1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...
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Spisanelli was born at Orta San Giulio
Orta San Giulio is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
The town itself is built on a promontory which juts out from t ...
, Piedmont
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. He was a pupil of Denis Calvaert
Denis (or Denys or Denijs) Calvaert (; around 154016 April 1619) was an Antwerp-born Flemish painter, who lived in Italy for most of his life, where he was known as Dionisio Fiammingo () or simply Il Fiammingo ("the Fleming"). Calvaert was a profo ...
in Bologna, but was also active in Ferrara, Imola
Imola (; rgn, Jômla or ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, located on the river Santerno, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The city is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical ...
, Modena, and in Lombardy.
He survived the plague of 1630, but not his wife, and he was afflicted with melancholy for the remainder of his life. He was prolific in the painting of altarpieces. He is also called ''Lo Spisanelli'' or ''Pisanelli'', ''Spisano'', or ''Spisani''. His only son, the painter Giulio Pisanelli, died a few years before his father. He died at Bologna in 1662.
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* 1595 births 1662 deaths People from Orta San Giulio 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub