Antonio Cimatori

Antonio Cimatori, called Il Visacci (c 1550–1623) was an Italian painter.^[1]

Life

Cimatori was a native of Urbino, who excelled in chiaroscuro and in pen and ink drawing, painting mainly religious scenes.^[2] He was a scholar of Federico Barocci. Among his pupils was Giulio Cesare Begni.^[3]

His paintings of the Annunciation and of St Francesca da Rimini are in the church of S. Biagio in Roncofreddo.^[4] He painted an Adoration of the Magi and a Crucifixion for the church of San Giovanni Battista, Rimini.^[5]

Works

• St. Matthew and the Angel
• Works at the Louvre (in the graphic arts department), Paris:
  • Annunciation
  • Martyrdom of St Sebastian

References

1. "Cimatori, Antonio". Union List of Artist' Names. J Paul Getty Foundation.
2. Bryan 1886-9.
3. Catalogo delle pitture che si conservano nelle chiese di Pesaro, 1783, page 81.
4. "Church of St Biagio - Roncofreddo,". Cesena Tourist Board.
5. La patria; geografia dell' Italia: pte. 2. Provincie di Ravenna, Ferrara, Forli', Luigi Borsari, 1901, page 282.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "CIMATORI, Antonio" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.