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ANDREA SACCHI (c. 1600--1661)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 970 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREA See also:SACCHI (c. 1600--1661)  , See also:Italian painter of the later See also:Roman school, was See also:born at See also:Nettuno near See also:Rome in 1600, or perhaps as See also:early as 1598 . His See also:father, Benedetto, a painter of undistinguished position, gave him his earliest instruction in the See also:art; See also:Andrea then passed into the studio of See also:Albani, of whom he was the last and the most eminent See also:pupil, and under Albani he made his reputation early . The painter of See also:Sacchi's predilection was See also:Raphael; he was the jealous opponent of Pietro da See also:Cortona, and more especially of See also:Bernini . In See also:process of See also:time he became one of the most learned designers and one of the soundest colourists of the Roman school . He went to See also:Venice and to See also:Parma to study Venetian See also:colour and the See also:style of See also:Correggio; but he found the last-named See also:master unadaptable for his own proper methods in art, and he returned to Rome . Sacchi was strong in See also:artistic theory, and in practice slow and fastidious; it was his See also:axiom that the merit of a painter consists in producing, not many middling pictures, but a few and perfect ones . His See also:works have dignity, repose, elevated yet natural forms, severe but not the less pleasing colour, a learned treatment of See also:architecture and See also:perspective; he is thus a painter of the correct and laudable See also:academic See also:order, admired by connoisseurs rather than by ambitious students or the large public . His See also:principal See also:painting, often spoken of as the See also:fourth best easel-picture in Rome—in the Vatican See also:Gallery—is " St Romuald See also:relating his See also:Vision to Five Monks of his Order." The pictorial crux of dealing with these figures, who are all in the See also:white garb of their order, has often been remarked upon; and as often the ingenuity and See also:judgment of Sacchi have been praised in varying the tints of these habits according to the See also:light and shade See also:cast by a neighbouring See also:tree . The Vatican Gallery contains also an early painting of the master —the " See also:Miracle of St See also:Gregory," executed in 1624; a See also:mosaic of it was made in 1771 and placed in St See also:Peter's . Other leading examples are the " See also:Death of St See also:Anna," in S Carlo ai Catinari; " St See also:Andrew," in the Quirinal; " St See also:Joseph," at See also:Capo alle See also:Case; also, in See also:fresco, a See also:ceiling in the Palazzo See also:Barberini—" Divine See also:Wisdom "—reckoned See also:superior in expression and selection to the See also:rival See also:work of Pietro da Cortona . There are likewise See also:altar-pieces in See also:Perugia, See also:Foligno and See also:Camerino . Sacchi, who worked almost always in Rome, See also:left few pictures visible in private galleries: one, of " St See also:Bruno," is in Grosvenor See also:House .

He had a flourishing school: See also:

Nicholas Poussin and Carlo Maratta were his most eminent scholars; See also:Luigi Garzi and See also:Francesco Lauri were others, and Sacchi's own son Giuseppe, who died See also:young, after giving very high hopes . This must have been an illegitimate son, for Andrea was unmarried when he died at Nettuno in 1661 .

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