Onorio Marinari (1627 – January 5, 1715) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the

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period, active mainly in

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. His father, Sigismondo di Pietro Marinari, was also a painter, and he trained with his cousin,

Carlo Dolci Carlo (or Carlino) Dolci (25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions. Biography He was born in Florence, ...

, later being also influenced by

Simone Pignoni Simone Pignoni (April 17, 1611 – December 16, 1698) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He apprenticed with Fabrizio Boschi, then with the more academic and puritanical Domenico Passignano, and finally with Francesco Furini. He is ...

and

Francesco Furini Francesco Furini (c. 1600 (or 1603) – August 19, 1646) was an Italian Baroque painter of Florence, noted for his sensual sfumato style in paintings of both secular and religious subjects. Biography He was born in Florence to an artistic ...

. His fresco in the Palazzo Capponi, Florence, is dated 1707. He worked mainly in Florence for Florentine and Tuscan clients, but he did not devote himself only to painting. In fact, in 1674, he published an essay on astronomy entitled ''Fabbrica ed uso dell' Annulo Astronomico''.

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was one of his pupils. Annunciazione - Onorio Marinari.jpg, ''Annunciation'', 1699 Onorio Marinari Santa Catalina The Wallace Collection.jpg, ''Saint Catherine of Alexandria reading'', 1670 Onorio Marinari Salomé con la cabeza del Bautista 1680 Minneapolis MA.jpg, ''Salome with the head of John the Baptist'', 1680 Onorio Marinari Semíramis.jpg, ''Semiramis''

Sources

Getty Museum entry

Works

* Marinari, Onorio – Fabbrica et uso dell'annulo astronomico, 1674 – BEIC 12837173.jpg, ''Fabbrica et uso dell'annulo astronomico'', 1674 1627 births 1715 deaths Painters from Florence Italian printmakers 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub