Niccolò Frangipane

The Holy Family with the Infant St John, 1585

Niccolò Frangipane (active 1565–97) was an Italian artist of the late Renaissance period.

Life[]

Frangipane was born in Padua. He executed a number of sacred subjects, but was more successful in mythological scenes, particularly the legends of Bacchus. In the church of in Padua is a depiction of St Francis of Assisi (1588); and at Pesaro, an altar-piece in San Stefano in Pesaro. Among his masterworks is an Assumption, in the church of the Conventuali, at Rimini.^[1]

Works[]

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  Penitent, 1574, now in the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga

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  Descent from the Cross, 1593, in the Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice

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  The way to the Calvary, now in the City Museum of Rimini

References[]

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Frangipane, Niccolò". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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