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Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci (1526/28 - 1612) was active/lived in Italy.  Federico Barocci is known for Renaissance religious figure and genre painting, altar pieces.

Federico Barocci (c. 1526, Urbino - 1612, Urbino) was an Italian Renaissance painter and printmaker. His original name was Federico Fiori, and he was nicknamed Il Baroccio, which still in northwestern Italian dialects means a two wheel cart drawn by oxen. His work was highly esteemed and influential, and foreshadows the Baroque* of Rubens.

Barocci was born at Urbino, Duchy of Urbino, and he received his earliest apprenticeship with his father, Ambrogio Barocci, a sculptor of some local eminence. He was then apprenticed with the painter Battista Franco in Urbino. He accompanied his uncle, Bartolomeo Genga to Pesaro, then in 1548 to Rome, where he was worked in the pre-eminent studio of the day, that of the Mannerist* painters, Taddeo and Federico Zuccari.

After passing four years at Rome, he returned to his native city, where his first work of art was a St. Margaret executed for the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament. He was invited back to Rome by Pope Pius IV to assist   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6494 characters.]  Artist bio

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