PROCACCINI, Ercole II
(b. 1596, Milano, d. ca. 1676, Milano)

Biography

Italian painter, part of a family of painters, son of Carlo Antonio Procaccini and grandson of Ercole Procaccini I. He first apprenticed with his father, then in 1621 he was enrolled in the first session of the Accademia Ambrosiana. Later he was trained with his uncle Giulio Cesare Procaccini. He painted an altarpiece of the Assumption of the Virgin for the church of Santa Maria Maggiore at Bergamo. On the death of Giulio Cesare, he became the director of the academy established by the Procaccini.