Raffaello Vanni

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Raffaello Vanni (1590 ca-1673) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.

Biography

He was born at Siena. He first trained with his father,

Pitti Palace, and other pictures at Siena and Pisa. He was a member of the Accademia di San Luca
in 1655. His brother, Michelangelo Vanni, is better known as the inventor of a process of making pictures by staining marble than as an artist. One of Raffaello's pupils was Deifebo Burbarini.

References

  1. ^ Christina Strunck: Bellori und Bernini rezipieren Raffael. Unbekannte Dokumente zur Cappella Chigi in Santa Maria del Popolo, Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 30. Bd. (2003), p. 149

Bibliography

  • 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. 633.