Pier-Francesco Sacchi (known active 1512–1520) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
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Born in Pavia, he worked in Genoa and became a member of that guild of painters in 1520. He painted in 1512, the Parting of St. John Baptist from his parents for the Oratory of Santa Maria in Genoa. He followed a style of Carlo Mantegna.[1]
References
edit- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons.
- ^ Guida pittorica ossia analisi intorno lo stile delle diverse scuole, by Alessandro Petti, 119-120.
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