Orlando Flacco

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Orlando Flacco or Fiacco (fl. 1560) was an Italian artist.

Life

Flacco, a native of Verona, was a painter who flourished about 1560. He a pupil of Francesco Torbido, known as Il Moro. His style much resembles that of Badile. Vasari praises his portraits, and Lanzi says that his forms resemble those of Caravaggio. He painted a Crucifixion and an Ecce Homo in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Bryan,1886-9

Sources

This article incorporates text from the article "FIACCO, Orlando" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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