Ranieri Del Pace

Ranieri Del Pace (May 7, 1681 in Pisa – February 27, 1738), also called Giovanni Batista Ranieri Del Pace, was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active mainly in Tuscany.

Ranieri Del Pace
Saint Vincent Ferrer, c. 1709, Palais Dorotheum, Vienna
Born	(1681-05-07)7 May 1681 Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Died	27 February 1738(1738-02-27) (aged 56) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Education	Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani
Known for	Painting
Movement	Baroque

He helped design celebratory floats to celebrate the canonization of Pope Pius V and painted frescoes of the stories of St. Pius the Palazzo Vescovile in Prato, a Martrydom of St Sebastian for the church of Santissima Annunziata in Capannoli, a Presentation of Jesus at the temple for the church of San Filippo Neri in Cortona, and for the church of Santi Andrea e Lucia a Ripoli, Cascina.

Gallery

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  Mythological scene, priv. col.
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  Belshazzar's Feast, priv. col.
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  Flight into Egypt, First Congregational Church, Stoneham, Massachusetts
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  The Flea-Catcher, Ravenna Art Museum
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  Perseus breaks into the wedding of his mother Danae and Polydectes, Palazzo Magnani Feroni, Florence
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  Judith Beheading Holofernes, priv. col.
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  Time that conquers vices and exalts virtues, Palazzo Tempi, Florence
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  St. Thomas Aquinas in Glory (Detail), Oratory of St Thomas Aquinas, Florence

Sources

• Lanzi, Luigi (1828). Thomas Roscoe (ed.). The History of Painting in Italy from the period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Thomas Roscoe; Volume VI containing the Schools of Lombardy, Mantua, Modena, Parma, Cremona, and Milan. London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. p. 346.

External links

• Meloni Trkulia, Silvia (1990). "DEL PACE, Ranieri". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 38: Della Volpe–Denza. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.