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(1) Ercole Procaccini (i) [il vecchio]
(b Bologna, bapt 23 Feb 1520; d Milan, 13 Jan 1595). Painter. He studied with Prospero Fontana and the two artists worked together in Rome in 1551. Active in Parma before 1560 and during part of that decade, in 1569 Ercole is documented back in Bologna, where a number of his altarpieces survive. The Virgin and Child with the Four Patron Saints of Bologna (1570; Bologna, S Giovanni in Monte) is a simple, symmetrical composition. Later in the 1570s his work became more sophisticated. His best-known altarpiece, the Conversion of Saul (1573; Bologna, S Giacomo Maggiore), is heavy yet elegant, reflecting the influence of central Italian Mannerism, as represented in Bologna by Lorenzo Sabbatini and Orazio Samacchini.
Part of the Procaccini family
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