Baldassarre Croce, who was probably born in Bologna, was first there recorded in 1575. He moved to rome and was enrolled in the Accademia di S Luca in 1581. He worked under Girolamo Muziano and Cesare Nebbia on the decoration of the Galleria delle Carte Geografiche in the Vatican palace in 1580-3. Most of his other known works are in Rome.
Assisi
Works in Santa Maria degli Angeli
Baldassarre Croce worked in two chapels in Santa Maria degli Angeli in ca. 1602:
Work in the Cappella della Deposizione
Ventura Salimbeni seems to have begun the decoration of this chapel the Breccia-Vigilanti family. Work here that is attributed to Baldassarre Croce includes:
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✴a fresco in the vaults that depicts St Clare taking the habit, which was designed by Ventura Salimbeni; and
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✴the altarpiece depicting the Deposition of Christ from the cross.
Work in the Cappella di San Pio V
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✴scenes from the life of the Virgin (in the vaults); and
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✴scenes from the life of St Francis (on the walls), including a depiction of the granting of the Portiuncula Indulgence on the right wall (illustrated here).
Foligno
Miracle of St Martin (early 17th century)
The panel depicts St Martin reviving from the dead a catechumen (a young man studying in preparation for baptism) so that he could be baptised.
