Carlo Allegretti (16th-17th century) was an Italian painter, mainly of sacred subjects.
Biography
Allegretti was born in
Monteprandone
Monteprandone ( nap, Munneprannù) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about northeast of Ascoli Piceno. It is the birthplace of James of the Marc ...
, and trained in Venice, following the style of
Giacomo Bassano. In the Province of Ascoli, he left a number of works including in the church of San Agostino in Monteprandone, an ''Offida'' and an ''Adoration of the Magi''; in the church of San Bartolomeo at
Ascoli Piceno, a ''Martyrdom of San Bartholomew'' (1605–1608). His masterwork is considered to be the triptych of the ''Adoration of the Magi'' (1611) in the Cathedral of Sant'Emidio at Ascoli Piceno.
Encyclopedia Treccani
short biography by Luigia Maria Tosi (1929).
References
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
17th-century Italian painters
Painters from Venice
People from Ascoli Piceno
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