About Marcantonio Canini
Lived 1618 – 1669 (aged 50–51). Marcantonio Canini was a painter, sculptor, artist and copper engraver.
Marcantonio Canini (1622–1669) was an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Rome and is best known for his statues of St. Dominic and St. Sixtus, and for the facade of Santi Domenico e Sisto, the University Church of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, in Rome.
He was the third-born son of the stonemason Vincenzo. He lived in Rome with his famous brother, painter Giovanni Angelo.
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Who was Marcantonio Canini?
Italian painter and sculptor (1622-ca. 1688)
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Marcantonio Canini was born in 1618 in Rome.
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Marcantonio Canini died in 1669.
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Marcantonio Canini was a painter, sculptor, artist and copper engraver.
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