Lucio Massari

Lucio Massari painting Sagrada Familia

Lucio Massari (22 January 1569 – 3 November 1633) was an Italian painter of the School of Bologna. He can be described as painting during both Mannerist and early-Baroque periods.

He was born in Bologna, where he initially apprenticed with an unknown painter by the name of Spinelli, then the Mannerist painter Bartolomeo Passarotti, but also worked with Bartolomeo Cesi. In 1592, he joined the Carracci studio or the Academy of the Incamminati, and remained attached to Ludovico Carracci for many years. In 1604, he worked with Ludovico to fresco Stories of San Mauro, San Benedetto and others in the cloister of San Michele in Bosco. In 1607, he collaborated with Lionello Spada and Francesco Brizio in frescoes for the Palazzo Bonfioli, in Bologna. In 1610, he visited Rome, remaining under the patronage of Cardinal Facchinetti, and befriended Domenichino. In 1612, he completed the frescoes left unfinished by Bernardino Poccetti in a chapel of the Certosa di Galluzzo, near Florence. He painted the main altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria in Guadi in San Giovanni in Persiceto. He returned to Bologna in 1614, and soon travels with Francesco Albani to work in Mantua. He is said to have spent so much time in hunting, fishing, and the delights of the countryside, that he neglected painting, though his biography shows him to be exceedingly prolific in altarpieces. Among his pupils were Sebastiano Brunetti, Antonio Randa, and Fra Bonaventura Bisi.

Works

• Transito di San Giuseppe, Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista Trebbo di Reno, Bologna
• Holy Family (Sacra Famiglia), Uffizi, Florence
• Ammon and Tamara (Ammone e Tamara) (c. 1615), Castle Museum of the Prague
• Deposizione, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Maddalena penitente, Museo civico, Carpi
• Crocefissione e santi, San Pietro Church, Cento
• Santo domenicano, Louvre Museum, Paris
• La probatica piscina, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome
• Saint Luke (San Luca), chiesa dei Capuccini, Rome
• Disputa di S. Cirillo, Bologna, S. Martino Oratory
• S. Margherita: il martirio (St. Margaret: The Martyr), San Maurizio, Mantua

Bibliography

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• C. Volpe, Lucio Massari, in «Paragone», 1955, n. 71, p. 3-18.
• Maestri della Pittura del Seicento Emiliano (1959), catalog, Bologna, p. 84-90

External links

• Blood of the Redeemer at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Marchese Antonio Bolognini Amorini (1841-1843). Vite dei Pittori ed Artifici Bolognesi (two volumes). Tipi Governativi alla Volpe ed Nobili; Original from Oxford Library, digitized June 26, 2006. pp. 102–106 (Parte Quinta).  Check date values in: |date= (help)