Vincenz Armann

Who is Vincenz Armann?

Vincenz Armann or Vincenzo Armanno was an Flemish landscape painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.

Vincenz arrived as an adult to Rome, having trained in his native Flanders. He appears to have excelled in painting landscapes, and was well patronized by the aristocracy . However, some time in the 1640s he was arrested and accused of eating meat on prohibited days, among other non-catholic practices, convicted, and jailed by the Roman Inquisition in the Dominican monastery adjacent to Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. His punishment was in part lessened because of some landscape frescoes he painted in the monastery. Once released, he soon left Rome to work in Venice. There he died of a febrile illness at about the age of 50. Passeri describes him as not disagreeable, but rude and mistrusting of persons of other nationalities.