Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (called Morazzone)(1573–1626)

• Was an Italian painter and draughtsman.
• He was active in Milan.
• He is his altarpieces, but his outstanding achievements are large decorative frescoes for the Sacro Monte di Varese and the Sacro Monte di Varallo.
• Among the pupils and followers were Francesco Cairo, Stefano & Gioseffo Danedi, Isidoro Bianchi, Giovanni Paolo & Giovanni Battista Recchi, Paolo Caccianiga, Tommaso Formenti, Giambatista Pozzi, and Cristoforo Martinolli della Rocca.
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Attributed to Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, Saint Francis Comforted by an Angel, c. 1615

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Attributed to Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, Saint Francis Comforted by an Angel, c. 1615

Giovanni Battista Crespi and Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli dettoil Morazzone and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, The Martyrdom of St. Rufina and St. Secunda, 1620-24

Original, Pinacoteka di Brera, Milan. Visited in 2019.

Giovanni Battista Crespi and Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli dettoil Morazzone and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, The Martyrdom of St. Rufina and St. Secunda, 1620-24

Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, Madonna of the Rosary with the Christ Child, St. Dominic and two Angels, before 1617

Original, Pinacoteka di Brera, Milan. Visited in 2019.