] Francesco Mancini (24 April 1679–August 1758) was an Italian people, Italian painter whose works are known between 1719 and 1756. He was the pupil of

Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (; 15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well ...

Biography

A native of

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, he was a student of

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and at

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and was introduced to

academic painting Academic art, academicism, or academism, is a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. This method extended its influence throughout the Western world over several centuries, from its origins ...

in the manner of the

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; echoes of this style of painting can be seen in his juvenile works: the frescoes of the ''Libreria'' in the main hall of the '' Biblioteca Classense'' in

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, and those in Foligno Cathedral depicting the ''Life of Angela di Foligno''. On the advice of the artist Marcantonio Franceschini, vice-prince of the ''

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'' in Bologna, he moved to

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, where he made contact with

Carlo Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (18 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian Baroque painter and Drawing, draughtsman, active principallly in Rome where he was the leading painter in the second half of the 17th century. He was a fresco and canvas painte ...

, also a native of the

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. This contact with Maratta's mature work, and with his pupils, is reflected by further developments in Mancini's painting. From this period are the frescoes in the

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, those in the Chiesa Nuova dei Filippini in

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(1730), in the Marian Shrine of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Misericordia, Macerata (1736), and others at

and

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. Francesco Mancini was held by his contemporaries as one of the best painters of the time: above all, the clear and luminous tones of his work were admired. He was a member of the

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(1732), the '' Accademia dei Virtuosi'' in the Pantheon of Rome (1743 and 1745) and director of the ''

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'' (1750–51). His pupils included

Sebastiano Ceccarini Sebastiano Ceccarini (1703–1783), born in Fano, was an Italian Baroque painter. He was a student of Francesco Mancini (1679–1758), Francesco Mancini and the teacher of his nephew Carlo Magini. Biography He painted in Rome during the papacy o ...

, Domenico Corvi, Niccolò Lapiccola of

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and Canon

Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini (19 November 1710 – 7 September 1801) was an Italian painter, poet, and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo. He was born at Pesaro. He was instructed in painting by Francesco Mancini, and studied at Rome ...

.«LAZZARINI, CANON GIO. ANDREA» in Shearjashub Spooner (ed), ''A Biographical History op. cit.'', vol. I, pp. 462-3

Selected works

* ''Nascita della vergine'', Napoli, Collezione Molaro * ''Addolorata'', Pinacoteca di Fano * ''Dominique quo vadis?'', Pinacoteca Comunale di Città di Castello * ''Apparizione di Gesù Cristo a San Pietro'', Roma, Palazzo Quirinale * ''Cristo in Gloria con i Santi Clemente e Ignazio d'Antiochia'', Urbino, Galleria Nazionale delle March

* ''Estasi di Santa Teresa'', Roma, Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala * ''La Castità che fustiga Amore'', Roma, Palazzo del Quirinale * ''La Concezione'', Roma, Chiesa di San Gregorio al Celio * ''Lotta fra Amore e Pan'', Roma, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Sala XV, inventario 40748 * ''Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto'', Roma, Pinacoteca Vaticana, Sala XV, inventario 40398 * ''Sacra Famiglia'', Roma, Palazzo Quirinale * ''San Damiano'', Roma, Chiesa di San Gregorio al Celio * ''San Francesco in preghiera'', Pinacoteca di Fan

* ''San Francesco di Paola'', Sant'Angelo in Vado, Church of Santa Maria dei Servi * ''San Giovanni Battista'', Pinacoteca di Fan

* ''San Nicola da Tolentino'', Sant'Angelo in Vado, Church of Santa Maria dei Servi * ''San Pietro e San Giovanni che guariscono uno storpio'', Roma, Palazzo del Quirinale * ''Sant'Agnese'', Pinacoteca di Ancona * ''Storie di Amore e Psiche'', Roma, Palazzo Colonna * ''Transito di San Giuseppe'', Pinacoteca di Fan

* ''Via Crucis'', Pioraco, Chiesa di San Francesco * ''Vergine Addolorata'', Urbino, Galleria Nazionale delle March

*''Assunzione della Vergine'', Convento Reale di Mafra - Portogallo

Bibliography

* Accademia nazionale di San Luca, ''Memorie per servire alla storia della Romana Accademia di S. Luca fino alla morte di Antonio Canova, compilate da Melchior Missirini''. Roma: Stamperia De Romanis, 1823, p. 227-8
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* Amico Ricci, ''Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della Marca di Ancona, del marchese Amico Ricci''. Macerata: Tipografia di Alessandro Mancini, 1834, vol. I, pp. 415–117
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* "MANCINI (Francesco)" in Carlo Antonio Vanzon (ed.), ''Dizionario universale della lingua italiana ed insieme di geografia, ecc, preceduto da una esposizione grammaticale ragionata della lingua italiana'', Livorno: dalla Stamperia di Paolo Vannini, 1836, Tomo IV (M-N-O), p. 91
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* Hermann Voss, ''Die Malerei des Barock in Rom''. Berlin: im Propylaen Verlag, 1924.

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* ttp://www.provincia.ps.it/oldcultura/images/jpeg/mostre/Sensivirtu/Dipinti%20%27700%20per%20web/manciniver.JPG Francesco Mancini, ''Vergine Addolorata'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Mancini, Francesco 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters 1679 births 1758 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists