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CONCA, SEBASTIANO (1679-1764)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 823 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR

CONCA, SEBASTIANO (1679-1764) , Italian painter of the Florentine school, was born at

Gaeta

GAETA (anc. Caietae
Portus
- PORTUS
)

, and studied at Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in

chalk

CHALK

only, to improve his drawing. He was patronized by the Cardinal Ottoboni, who introduced him to Clement XI.; and a Jeremiah painted in the

church

of St John Lateran was rewarded by the

pope

with

knighthood

KNIGHTHOOD

and by the cardinal with a diamond

cross

CROSS

. His fame grew quickly, and he received the patronage of most of the crowned heads of Europe. He painted till near the day of his death, and left behind him an immense number of pictures, mostly of a brilliant and showy kind, which are distributed among the churches of Italy. Of these the Probatica, or Pool of Siloam, in the

hospital

of Santa Maria della Scala, at Siena, is considered the finest.

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