Giacinto Calandrucci

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Giacinto Calandrucci alternativt namn: Diacinto Calandrucci

DatesBiographical dates Born: born 1646-04-20 Born: born 1707-02-22

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BiographyBiography: Giacinto Calandrucci was born in Palermo. The Sicilian artist Andrea Correa is perhaps most likely to have been his first teacher. In his early twenties Calandrucci moved to Rome, where he was apprenticed in the studio of Carlo Maratta (1625–1713). Here he developed his skilful drawing, in the tradition of his master Maratta, but often with a characteristic higher degree of finish. Perhaps more than his drawing, Maratta influenced Calandrucci’s painting, which often expressed a similar muted air, despite a wide chromatic range. In Rome and its vicinity, Calandrucci painted frescoes for the Palazzo Barberini, the Palazzo Colonna and the Palazzo Lante, and for the Villa Falconieri at Frascati. In the church of Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi, he decorated the Cimini Chapel with scenes of the Baptism of Christ and painted the main altarpiece depicting St Anthony. For the Capuchin monks at the church of Santa Maria della Concezione he painted a Virgin and Child, and in the church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale he painted the Blessed Stanislaus. From private patrons as well as from Pope Innocent XII (1615–1700), Calandrucci received several other Roman commissions, many of which he painted in collaboration with Giuseppe Passeri (1654–1714). In 1703 Calandrucci returned to Palermo, where he painted a St Rosalia and a Madonna with St Basil and Other Saints for the church of Santissimo Salvatore, as well as frescoes for the vault of the oratory of San Lorenzo. Calandrucci died in Palermo on 22 February 1707.

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