Orazio Riminaldi (1593 - 1630)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Riminaldi was born and died in Pisa.
• He was in Pisa first a pupil of the little known painter Rainero Alberghetti, and later studied with Aurelio Lomi.
• No works from his early period survive.
• He moved to Rome sometime between 1610 and 1620.
• Here he underwent the influence of the Caravaggist movement most likely through Orazio Gentileschi, Domenichino, Bartolomeo Manfredi but also from Simon Vouet.
• He painted a portrait of Curzio Ceuli, c. 1627 in a Caravaggesque style not unlike that of Orazio Gentileschi and Valentin de Boulogne.
• He died suddenly in 1630 in Pisa of the plague.
• His Assumption of the Virgin for the Cathedral of Pisa was completed posthumously by his brother Girolamo.
• Among his pupils were his brother Giovanni Battista Riminaldi, Alessandro Cominotti and Giovanni Navarretti.
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