Sebastiano Folli

Virgin with Child, fresco from the San Biagio Church in Castiglione d'Orcia

Sebastiano Folli, who is stated by Baldinucci to have been a native of Siena, was born in 1568. He was a scholar of Alessandro Casolano, and distinguished himself by several frescoes in the churches at Siena, particularly the cupola of Santa Marta, and some subjects from the Life of St. Sebastian, in the church of that saint, painted in competition with Rutilio Manetti, to whose pictures they are in no way inferior. He visited Rome, and was employed in some considerable works for the Cardinal de' Medici, afterwards Leo XI. He died in 1621.

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "FOLLI, Sebastiano". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.[[Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, volume 1|]]