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Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661)

Aliases: Andrea (1599) Sacchi

Professions: Painter

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    Andrea Sacchi (?Rome c. 1599-1661 Rome)

    Andrea Sacchi (?Rome c. 1599-1661 Rome)

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    Attributed to Andrea Sacchi , Rome (?) circa 1599 - 1661 Rome The Drunkenness of Noah oil on canvas

    Attributed to Andrea Sacchi , Rome (?) circa 1599 - 1661 Rome The Drunkenness of Noah oil on canvas

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    * ANDREA SACCHI ROME (?) CIRCA 1599 - 1661

    * ANDREA SACCHI ROME (?) CIRCA 1599 - 1661

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    Head studies of two men

    Head studies of two men

Andrea Sacchi Biography

(b ?Rome, c . 1599; d Rome, 21 June 1661). Italian painter and designer. He occupied an important position, midway between Annibale Carracci and Carlo Maratti, in the development of a more restrained, less decorative painting in 17th-century Rome, a trend that culminated in the 18th century with Pompeo Batoni. Sacchi trained with Francesco Albani, Carracci’s student, and taught Maratti. His often expressed devotion to the art of Raphael and Carracci and his criticism of the views of Pietro da Cortona and Gianlorenzo Bernini made him, with Nicolas Poussin and Alessandro Algardi, one of the most significant representatives of a stylistic and aesthetic opposition to the more flamboyant, extrovert aspects of the High Baroque. Sacchi did not, however, share Poussin’s passionate interest in Classical antiquity, nor was his mature work as cerebral. Yet his mature style, less richly coloured than his early manner and more restrained emotionally, blended elements now associated with both Baroque and Classical art in a complex synthesis that was an original and deeply considered interpretation of Italian artistic traditions.

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