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See also: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
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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 See also: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 See also: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 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
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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 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
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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 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: 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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