Francesco Vanni
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Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Francesco Vanni (1563 - 1610) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist style, active in Rome and his native city of Siena.
While like other Tuscan painters of his day, he was influenced in part by Federico Barocci from Urbino, and he was among the last painters who reflected the influence of the Sienese School of painting. He was half-brother of the painter Ventura Salimbeni, and the stepson of Arcangelo Salimbeni, another Sienese painter. His sons, Michelangelo and Rafaello Vanni were also painters. In Rome, he worked under Giovanni de' Vecchi and later with Salimbeni, Domenico Passerotti, and Andrea Lilio. He was commissioned by Pope Clement VIII to painted an altarpiece for the St. Peter's, later transferred to mosaic, Simon Magus rebuked by St. Peter.
His works include:
- Baptism of Constantine, (1587, Sant'Agostino, Siena)
- Immaculata (1588, Church of Montalcino)
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