Mauro Soderini Explained

Mauro Soderini (1704 – after 1739/1751) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, mainly painting sacred subjects and active in his native Florence.[1] [2]

He studied in Bologna and Rome. In Florence he worked with Vincenzo Meucci and Giovanni Domenico Ferretti. He painted altarpieces for San Salvatore: a Deposition (1738; and for Santo Stefano: a Miracle of San Zenobi (1745).[3] Luigi Lanzi describes him as a pupil of Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani or of Sagrestani's mentor, Carlo Cignani.[4]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/346166 Metropolitan Museum
  2. Trecanni entry lists death after 1751.
  3. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mauro-soderini/ Encyclopedia Treccani
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=6M3qAAAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools