Orazio Borgianni (1574 – 1616)

• Was an Italian painter and etcher.
• He was the stepbrother of the sculptor and architect Giulio Lasso.
• Borgianni was born in Rome. 
• He was instructed in the art of painting by his brother, Giulio Borgiani, called Scalzo.
• The patronage by Philip II of Spain induced him to visit that Spain, where he signed an inventory in January 1605.
• He returned to Rome from Spain after April 1605 at the height of his career, and most of the work of his maturity was carried out 1605–16.
• His early biographer was his contemporary, Giovanni Baglione, who leans heavily on anecdote.
• He is said to have had a temper; riding one day in a coach, at Rome, he saw some artists, among whom was Caravaggio, laughing at him; he sprang from the carriage, seized a bottle of varnish from the shop of a druggist, and threw it at the heads of the offenders.
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