Lucio Massari (1569-1633)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Bologna.
• He initially apprenticed with a painter by the name of Spinelli.
• After with the Mannerist painter Bartolomeo Passarotti, but also worked with Bartolomeo Cesi.
• In 1592, he joined the Carracci studio or the Academy of the Incamminati.
• In 1607, he collaborated with Lionello Spada and Francesco Brizio in frescoes for the Palazzo Bonfioli, in Bologna.
• In 1610, he visited Rome, remaining under the patronage of Cardinal Facchinetti, and befriended Domenichino.
• He returned to Bologna in 1614, and soon traveled with Francesco Albani to work in Mantua.
• He is said to have spent so much time in hunting, fishing, and the delights of the countryside, that he neglected painting.
• Among his pupils were Sebastiano Brunetti, Antonio Randa, and Fra Bonaventura Bisi.
• His son Bartolomeo Massari became a noted anatomist.

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