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Mario Righetti

Mario Righetti

Italian painter

Mario Righetti (born c. 1590) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.[1]

He was born at Bologna. He became a pupil of Lucio Massari. In Bologna, he painted an Archangel Michael for the church of San Guglielmo; a Christ appearing to the Magdalen for San Giacomo Maggiore; an Adoration of the Magi for the church of Sant'Agnese; and a Nativity that once adorned the church of Santa Lucia (now deconsecrated).

References

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    Bryan, Michael (1816). "A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: From the Revival of the Art Under Cimabue, and the Alledged Discovery of Engraving by Finiguerra, to the Present Time : with the Ciphers, Monograms, and Marks, Used by Each Engraver, and an Ample List of Their Principal Works, Together with Two Indexes, Alphabetical and Chronological, to which is Prefixed, an Introduction, Containing a Brief Account of the Painters of Antiquity". Carpenter and Son; J. Booker; and Whittingham and Arliss.


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