Orazio borgianni biography of william hill

Italian painter

Orazio Borgianni (6 April – 14 January )^[1][2] was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods.

He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso.

Borgianni was born in Rome, where he was documented in February He was instructed in the art of painting by his brother, Giulio Borgianni, called Scalzo.

The patronage by Philip II of Spain induced him to visit Spain, where he signed an inventory in January He returned to Rome from Spain after April at the height of his career, and most of the work of his maturity was carried out –^[3] In Spain, he signed a petition to begin an Italianate academy of painting and executed a series of nine paintings for the Convento de Portacoeli, Valladolid, where they remain.

From his time in Spain, there remain two of his paintings in the Prado Museum: St Christopher and the Stigmatization of St Francis and also an attributed selfport