Orazio Riminaldi

Painting, Visual Artist

1586 – 1631

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Who was Orazio Riminaldi?

Orazio Riminaldi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

Riminaldi was born at Pisa. He was a pupil of the painter Ranieri Borghetti, then Aurelio Lomi, and finally Orazio Gentileschi. He painted in a Caravaggist style in Rome, and returned to Pisa, ultimately choosing a muted style. He painted the Martyrdom of St. Cecilia previously in the Palazzo Pitti, there is a copy in the church of St. Catherine of Pisa. He painted a Samson slaying the Philistines and the Assumption of the Virgin for the cathedral of Pisa. He died of the plague in 1630.

Riminaldi's Danae and Icarus is in the Wadsworth Atheneaum in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Born
1586
Pisa
Nationality
  • Italy
Lived in
  • Pisa
Died
Dec 10, 1631

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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