Mauro Soderini

{{Short description|Italian painter}}

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.[http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/346166 Metropolitan Museum], drawing by Soderini.Trecanni entry lists death after 1751.

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).[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/mauro-soderini/ Encyclopedia Treccani], short entry on Soderini. Luigi Lanzi describes him as a pupil of Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani or of Sagrestani's mentor, Carlo Cignani.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6M3qAAAAMAAJ The History of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools], by Luigi Lanzi, Thomas Roscoe, page 253.

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