Antonio Cimatori, called Il Visacci (c. 1550–1623) was an Italian painter.[1]

Life

Cimatori was a native of Urbino, who excelled in chiaroscuro and in pen and ink drawing, painting mainly religious scenes.[2] He was a scholar of Federico Barocci. Among his pupils was Giulio Cesare Begni.[3]

His paintings of the Annunciation and of St Francesca da Rimini are in the church of S. Biagio in Roncofreddo.[4] He painted an Adoration of the Magi and a Crucifixion for the church of San Giovanni Battista, Rimini.[5]

Works

• St. Matthew and the Angel
• Works at the Louvre (in the graphic arts department), Paris:
  • Annunciation
  • Martyrdom of St Sebastian

References

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Sources

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

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