Ercole Graziani the Younger
Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.
Main Altar in San Giovanni in Valle, Cividale, Italy
Biography
He was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire (San Pietro in Bologna) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome. He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively St. Simone Stoch receives a scapular from the Virgin and St. Pietro Thoma for the first chapels to left and right of the Church of the Carmine in Medicina.[1]
Among his many pupils are Giuseppe Becchetti,[2] Antonio Concioli and Carlo Bianconi.
References
- Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks. pp. page 92.
- Graziani biography.
- ↑ City of Medicina site.
- ↑ Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine, 1796, Volume 8, page 730.
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