Ercole Procaccini
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Ercole Procaccini il Giovane (c. 6 August 1605 - 14 November 1675 or 2 March 1680) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Born to a family of painters in Milan, he initially apprenticed with his father, painter Carlo Antonio Procaccini. In 1621 he was enrolled in the first session of the Accademia Ambrosiana. His uncles,Camillo and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, were also painters.
He was born at Milan and trained with his uncle Giulio Cesare Procaccini. He painted an altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore at Bergamo. On the death of Giulio Cesare, he became the director of the academy established by the Procaccini.
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- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 324.
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