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)
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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.