Andrea Sacchi

SACCHI, Andrea Italian painter, Roman school (b. 1599, Nettuno, d.

1661, Roma).

Andrea Sacchi was the son and pupil of Benedetto Sacchi. He then worked with Francesco Albano and studied Raphael, Polidoro da Caravaggio and the artists of antiquity. He later trained numerous pupils, most notably Lauri, Gazzi and Carlo Maratti.

Sacchi was the protégé of Cardinal Barberini, who employed him to work in his palace and procured for him major public works commissions in Rome. Between 1629 and 1633, Andrea Sacchi produced for his patron the Triumph of Divine Wisdom, inspired by Raphael's Parnassus. Other notable works include S Romuald and His Monks, a work long considered one of the most remarkable paintings in Rome, the Death of St Anne at the church of S Carlo in Cativari, the Mass of St Gregory and Clement VIII in the Vatican, the Angel Appearing to St Joseph at S Giuseppe and St Andrew at the Quirinale.

Collective thematic exhibitions in which Sacchi's work has been featured include the 2002 exhibition Celestial Glories (Cieux en gloire) held at the Fesch museum in Ajaccio, which evoked the great decorative commissions of the Roman Baroque through sketches and models. A solo exhibition was mounted in 1999 in Forte Sangallo.

"SACCHI, Andrea." In Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online, http://www.oxfordartonline.com.proxy.lib.fsu.edu/subscriber/article/benezit/B00158757 (accessed April 12, 2012).