Sebastiano Ceccarini (1703–1783), born in Fano, was an Italian Baroque painter. He was a student of Francesco Mancini and the teacher of his nephew Carlo Magini.
Biography
editHe painted in Rome during the papacy of Pope Clement XII, painting an altarpiece for a chapel the Quirinale, belonging to the Swiss. he retired with a stipend paid by the town of Fano.[1]
He painted an altarpiece, depicting the Madonna and Child with St Francis and St Sebastian and the Castle of Mondolfo in Background, for the church of San Sebastiano in Mondolfo.[2]
Works
edit- Portrait of a Noblewoman (ca. 1750), Walters Art Museum, Baltimore [3]
- Assumption (ca. 1750), Church of Ss. Sergius and Bacchus, Rome
- Allegory of the Five Senses, 1748, Milan, Altomani collection
References
edit- ^ Degli uomini illustri di Urbino by Carlo Grossi, Pompeo Gherardi; Printer Giusepper Rondino Urbino (1856); page 264.
- ^ Marche Tourism office, entry on church.
- ^ Walters Art Museum
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