Orazio Borgianni

Orazio Borgianni (6 April 1574 – 14 January 1616)[1][2] was an Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods.

He was instructed in the art of painting by his brother, Giulio Borgianni, called Scalzo.

He returned to Rome from Spain after April 1605 at the height of his career, and most of the work of his maturity was carried out 1605–16.

A lively self-portrait of an earnest, somewhat foppish Borgianni is in the Rome Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica.

He is said to have had a temper; riding one day in a coach, at Rome, he saw some artists, among whom was Caravaggio, laughing at him; he sprang from the carriage, seized a bottle of varnish from the shop of a druggist, and threw it at the heads of the offenders.