Ercole Graziani the Younger
Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.
Biography[]
Ercole was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire (Bologna Cathedral) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome. He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively St. Simon Stock 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 ,[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. p. 92.
- Graziani biography.
- ^ City of Medicina site. Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine, 1796, Volume 8, page 730.
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Categories:
- 1688 births
- 1765 deaths
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 18th-century Italian painters
- Painters from Bologna
- Italian Baroque painters
- Italian painter, 17th-century birth stubs