Vincenzo Spisanelli was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

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 period, active mainly in Bologna

Bologna

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Spisanelli was born at Orta San Giulio

Orta San Giulio

Orta San Giulio is a town and comune in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about 100 km northeast of Turin and about 40 km northwest of Novara....

, Piedmont

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. He was a pupil of Denis Calvaert

Denis Calvaert

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 in Bologna, but was also active in Ferrara

Ferrara

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, Imola

Imola

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, Modena

Modena

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, and in Lombardy

Lombardy

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He survived the plague of 1630, but not his wife, and he was afflicted with melancholy for the remainer of his life. He was prolific in the painting of altarpieces. His only son died soon after the father. He is also called Lo Spisanelli or Pisanelli, Spisano, or Spisani. He died at Bologna in 1662.