(b ?Rome, c. 1599; d Rome, 21 June 1661). Italian painter and designer. He occupied an important position, midway between Annibale Carracci and Carlo Maratti, in the development of a more restrained, less decorative painting in 17th-century Rome, a trend that culminated in the 18th century with Pompeo Batoni. Sacchi trained with Francesco Albani, Carracci’s student, and taught Maratti. His often expressed devotion to the art of Raphael and Carracci and his criticism of the views of Pietro da Cortona and Gianlorenzo Bernini made him, with Nicolas Poussin and Alessandro Algardi, one of the most significant representatives of a stylistic and aesthetic opposition to the more flamboyant, extrovert aspects of the High Baroque. Sacchi did not, however, share Poussin’s passionate interest in Classical antiquity, nor was his mature work as cerebral. Yet his mature style, less richly coloured than his early manner and more restrained emotionally, blended elements now associated with both Baroque and Classical art in a complex synthesis that was an original and deeply considered interpretation of Italian artistic traditions.

• Sacchi, Andrea
  • assistants
    • Camassei, Andrea
    • Gimignani: (1) Giacinto Gimignani
    • Maratti, Carlo, §2(i)(a): Subject compositions: Early years, to 1661
  • book illustrations
    • Lanfranco, Giovanni, §6: Naples, 1634–46
  • collaboration
    • Cortona, Pietro da, §I, 1(i): Paintings: Training and early works in Cortona and Rome, before c 1630
    • Miel, Jan
    • Salucci, Alessandro
    • Savonanzi, Emilio
  • groups and movements
    • Baroque, §4: Two modes of imagination
  • mosaics
    • Rome, §V, 14(ii)(b): St Peter’s: Decoration
  • paintings
    • frescoes
      • Allegory, §V: Baroque
      • Giori, Angelo
      • Italy, §III, 5(ii)(b): High Baroque painting, c 1620–c 1650: Rome
      • Rome, §V, 15(iii): Lateran Baptistery
      • Rome, §V, 24: Palazzo Barberini
    • history
      • Jesuit Order, §3(ii): Patronage: Decoration
      • Vecchi, Giovanni de’
    • oil sketches
      • Oil sketch
    • portraits
      • Bourbon, §II: (2) Elizabeth, Queen of Spain
    • religious
      • Camaldolese Order, §2: Iconography
  • patrons and collectors
    • Barberini, Antonio, Cardinal
      • Barberini: (4) Antonio Barberini
    • Barberini, Taddeo
      • Barberini: (3) Taddeo Barberini
    • Bourbon del Monte, Francesco Maria, Cardinal
      • Bourbon del Monte, Francesco Maria
    • Castel Rodrigo, Manuel de Moura y Corte Real, 2nd Marqués de
      • Castel Rodrigo
    • Einden, Jan van den
      • Einden, van den
    • Ensenada, Marqués de
      • Ensenada
    • Medinaceli, Luís de la Cerda Fernández de Córdoba Folch de Cardona y Aragón, 9th Duque de (1660-1711)
      • Medinaceli: (1) 9th Duque de Medinaceli
    • Pascoli, Lione
      • Pascoli, Lione
    • Spencer, John, 1st Earl Spencer
      • Spencer: (2) John Spencer
    • Urban VIII, Pope (reg 1623-44)
      • Barberini: (1) Urban VIII, §2: Papal commissions, 1623–44
    • Vassal de Saint-Hubert, Jean-Antoine-Hubert
      • Vassal de Saint-Hubert, Jean-Antoine-Hubert
  • pupils
    • Baldini , Pietro Paolo
    • Garzi, Luigi
    • Maratti, Carlo, §1: Training and early life
    • Werner, Joseph, II
  • teachers
    • Albani, Francesco, §1(iii): Bologna, after 1617
    • Albani, Francesco, §2: Influence and critical reputation