BADALOCCHIO, SISTO

(1585-after 1620)

   Italian painter and engraver who studied with Agostino Carracci in his hometown of Parma. When Agostino died in 1602, Badalocchio's protector Ranuccio I Farnese sent him to Rome to work alongside Annibale Carracci on the Farnese ceiling (c. 1597-1600; Rome, Palazzo Farnese). In Rome, Badalocchio collaborated with Giovanni Lanfranco on several projects, including a series of engravings based on Raphael's Vatican Loggia frescoes (1607). Badalocchio's Susanna and the Elders (c. 1609; Sarasota, Ringling Museum) is one of his best-known works. Here, he used an ancient crouching Venus type as the model for Susanna, a motif Ludovico Carracci was to repeat in 1616 in his version in the London National Gallery. Though the subject was often depicted by members of the Carracci School, the linear contours and colors in Badalocchio's work recall the paintings of Bartolomeo Schedoni who was a Caravaggist.