Fano Altarpiece [SEP] creator
Fano Altarpiece
The Fano Altarpiece is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Pietro Perugino, executed in 1497, and housed in the church of Santa Maria Nuova, Fano, central Italy. It also includes a lunette with a "Pietà" and several predella panels.
Perugino had already painted an "Annunciation" in 1488-1490. Several scholars have supposed that a young Raphael collaborated on the predella.
Description.
The Madonna is portrayed on a luminous landscape of hills, on a high throne; in front
Sebastiano Ceccarini
Sebastiano Ceccarini (1703–1783), born in Fano, was an Italian Baroque painter. He was a student of Francesco Mancini and the teacher of his nephew Carlo Magini.
Biography.
He painted in Rome during the papacy of Pope Clement XII, painting an altarpiece for a chapel the Quirinale, belonging to the Swiss. he retired with a stipend paid by the town of Fano.
He painted an altarpiece, depicting the "Madonna and Child with St Francis and St Sebastian and the Castle of Mondolfo