Gasparo Sacchi, also known as Gaspare da Imola, ( active c. 1517–1536) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Biography
editBorn in Imola, he painted in Ravenna and other towns of the Romagna. He painted in a San Pietro de Imola altarpiece in 1517 and a Virgin with Saints Rocco, Francis, and Sebastian (1521) for the church of San Francesco in Ravenna.[1]
He was noted to have been influenced by Melozzo da Forli, although the latter had died in 1494.[2] He painted altarpieces (dated 1521) for the sacristy of the Castel San Pietro in Imola.
References
edit- 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. 435.
- ^ Guida di Ravenna: con compendio storico della città, By Gaspare Ribuffi, page 115.
- ^ Art in northern Italy, by Corrado Ricci, page 317.
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