Ercole Graziani the Younger

Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.

Biography

Ercole was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire (Bologna Cathedral) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome.[1]

He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively St. Simon Stock receives a scapular from the Virgin and St. Pietro Thoma for the first chapels to left and right of the Church of the Carmine in Medicina.[2]

Among his many pupils are Giuseppe Becchetti,[3] Antonio Concioli and Carlo Bianconi.

References

  1. ^ "Altare Maggiore", Basilica di Sant'Apollinare – Roma
  2. ^ City of Medicina site. Archived 2007-06-17 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine, 1796, Volume 8, page 730.
  • Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 92.
  • Graziani biography.
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