Ercole Graziani the Younger

Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza.

Ercole was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini.

Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy of his St. Peter consecrating St. Apollinaire (Bologna Cathedral) for the church of Sant'Apollinare in Rome.

[1] He also painted altarpieces depicting respectively St. Simon Stock receives a scapular from the Virgin and St. Pietro Thoma for the first chapels to left and right of the Church of the Carmine in Medicina.

[2] Among his many pupils are Giuseppe Becchetti,[3] Antonio Concioli and Carlo Bianconi.

Judith with the head of Holofernes by Ercole Graziani the Younger, second quarter of the 18th century, National Museum in Warsaw