Pietro Sorri
{{Short description|Italian painter (c.1556–1622)}}
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Pietro Sorri (1558-1622) was an Italian painter active in Siena.
Biography
He first studied under Arcangelo Salimbeni (father of Ventura), and afterwards under Cavaliere Domenico Passignano, whom he accompanied to Venice. Several of his works are in Florence and other cities of Tuscany, particularly at Pisa; he painted landscapes and portraits as well as history. Among his pupils were Giovanni Stefano Rossi, Bernardo Strozzi,[https://books.google.com/books?id=W9AsAQAAMAAJ The Picture Collector's Manual: Being a Dictionary of Painters], Volume 2, 1849, By James R. Hobbes, page 275. and Astolfo Petrozzi. He was also active in Lucca, Genoa, Milan, and Pavia.[https://books.google.com/books?id=tayamzcbnjQC Lettere senesi di un socio dell'Accademia di Fossano] Volume 3, by Guglielmo Della Valle, page 423-425.
He painted an altarpiece for the church of San Ambrogio in Massa di Carrara.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dIXYoHx46-4C Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ...] By Giuseppe Campori, page 447.
Works
- Death of Saint Anthony the Abbot (around 1602), Louvrem, Paris
- Trinity and Saints, altarpiece at the Sant'Agostine (St. Augustine) church, Siena
- Gesù benedicente, la Vergine e i Santi Francesco e Andrea (signed and dated in 1605), Saint Francis Basilica, Siena
- Frescoes at the Certosa di Pavia with Alessandro Casolani
- Portrait of an Artist, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
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Category:16th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
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