Scipione Sacco

Scipione Sacco (or Sacchi) (1495–1558) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active near or in Cesena.

He is referred to as a likely pupil or strongly influenced by Raphael.[1] Born in the town of Sogliano al Rubicone, he painted a Pope St Gregory for the cathedral of Cesena in 1545. For the church of San Domenico of Cesena, he painted a Death of St Peter Martyr.[2]

He died in Cesena.

References
  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 436.
  1. Fondazione Zeri entry.
  2. Il microcosmo della pittura; by Francesco Scannelli; Cesena (1657); page 183.


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