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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 early as 1598
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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 pupil, and under Albani he made his reputation early
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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 Bernini
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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
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He went to Venice and to See also: Parma to study Venetian colour and the See also: style of See also: Correggio; but he found the last-named master unadaptable for his own proper methods in art, and he returned to Rome
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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
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His See also: works have dignity, repose, elevated yet natural forms, severe but not the less pleasing colour, a learned treatment of architecture and 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
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His See also: principal See also: painting, often spoken of as the See also: fourth best easel-picture in Rome—in the Vatican Gallery—is " St Romuald See also: relating his 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 cast by a neighbouring See also: tree
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The Vatican Gallery contains also an early painting of the master —the " Miracle of St See also: Gregory," executed in 1624; a mosaic of it was made in 1771 and placed in St See also: Peter's
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Other leading examples are the " See also: Death of St Anna," in S Carlo ai Catinari; " St Andrew," in the Quirinal; " St See also: Joseph," at See also: Capo alle See also: Case; also, in See also: fresco, a ceiling in the Palazzo Barberini—" Divine Wisdom "—reckoned See also: superior in expression and selection to the See also: rival See also: work of Pietro da Cortona
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There are likewise altar-pieces in See also: Perugia, See also: Foligno and See also: Camerino
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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
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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
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This must have been an illegitimate son, for Andrea was unmarried when he died at Nettuno in 1661
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