Saints Dominic and Francis, Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata

Carlo Antonio Rambaldi (1680-1717) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Bologna.

Biography

Known as a figure painter, he was a pupil of Domenico Maria Viani. He painted in Macerata, Rome, and Turin. In Bologna, he painted in the Sacristy of the church of San Petronio. For his work in Piacenza, he was awarded a knighthood. Returning to Bologna in 1717 with his wife, he drowned in the Taro river.[1] He painted a Death of St. Joseph for the church of Santi Gregorio e Siro; a Visitation for San Giuseppe Sposo ; and a St. Francis Xavier for the church of Santa Lucia.

References

  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 344.
  1. ↑ Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796, by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 744.
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