# Federico Barocci artist context and auction value notes

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## Artist identity

- Death date: 1612-09-30
- Nationality: Italian
- Movements: Italian Renaissance, Proto-Baroque
- Common media: oil painting, fresco, printmaking / engraving, drawing

## About Federico Barocci

Federico Barocci (born Federico Fiori, c. 1535, Urbino – died 30 September 1612, Urbino) was an Italian painter, fresco artist, printmaker, and designer active during the late Renaissance. Known by the nickname Il Baroccio, he trained in Urbino under his cousin Bartolomeo Genga and was descended from the architect-sculptor Ambrogio Barocci da Milano. Barocci spent most of his career in Urbino, with formative periods in Rome, and is widely regarded as the most distinctive and accomplished painter in central Italy during his generation. His compositions — characterized by warm color, soft modeling, and emotional immediacy — bridge the late Renaissance manner and the emerging Baroque sensibility, anticipating the work of Peter Paul Rubens and other seventeenth-century masters. Major altarpieces for churches in Urbino, Perugia, and Rome cemented his contemporary reputation.

## Common works and media

Oil paintings on canvas and panel, primarily religious altarpieces and devotional subjects. Barocci also produced fresco cycles, preparatory chalk and ink drawings, and designs reproduced as chiaroscuro woodcuts and line engravings. Portraits are a less common but documented part of his output. Works on paper — drawings and prints — represent a significant share of auction appearances.

## Market and appraisal context

Federico Barocci's surviving body of work is relatively small, making securely attributed paintings uncommon at auction. Collectors most frequently encounter his oil paintings — especially altarpieces and devotional cabinet pictures — alongside preparatory drawings and chiaroscimo woodcuts or engravings after his designs. Provenance linking a work to documented commissions, verifiable condition, and scholarly endorsement are the primary factors that affect appraisal value. Prints and workshop copies appear more regularly in the market than autograph canvases and should be carefully distinguished from original works.

## Appraisily data basis

This Appraisily artist page combines identity research from museum and library authority records with Invaluable auction records, sale dates, realized prices, lot descriptions, and comparable auction results where available. Biographical data is drawn from the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, the Getty Union List of Artist Names, VIAF, and Wikidata.

## Sources

- RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/4572
- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316731
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Barocci
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115210
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/41865190/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50067722