Orlando Flacco

Portrait of a man

Orlando Flacco or Fiacco (fl. 1560) was an Italian artist.

Life

Flacco, a native of Verona, was a painter who flourished about 1560. He a pupil of Francesco Torbido, known as Il Moro. His style much resembles that of Badile. Vasari praises his portraits, and Lanzi says that his forms resemble those of Caravaggio. He painted a Crucifixion and an Ecce Homo in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona.

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fiacco, Orlando". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.