en Sebastiano Ceccarini

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

He 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

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

^ 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

[1] Degli uomini illustri di Urbino by Carlo Grossi, Pompeo Gherardi; Printer Giusepper Rondino Urbino (1856); page 264.

[2] Marche Tourism office, entry on church.

[3] Walters Art Museum

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