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Orazio Porta (born c. 1540) was an Italian painter active in the mannerist period. He was active from at least 1568 to 1580s.

Biography

He was a native of Monte San Savino, and is described as painting in a manner highly influenced or tutored by Giorgio Vasari. He has a number of altarpieces in the church of Santa Maria delle Vertighe in Monte Savino.

References

1. Arezzo Tourism commercial website, entry on Monte San Savino.

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 311.

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