Ottavio Vannini

Ottavio Vannini (September 15, 1585 – c. 1643) was an Italian artist of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence.

He initially apprenticed for four years with a mediocre painter by the name of Giovanni Battista Mercati (possibly the engraver), but he then trained in Rome under Anastasio Fuontebuoni.

He painted the altarpiece for the chapel of the Holy Sacrament in the cathedral of Colle Val d'Elsa.

He painted a Tancred and Erminia and an Ecce Homo now in the Palazzo Pitti.

In 2007, Vannini's 1640 work, The Triumph of David (on loan from the Haukohl Family Collection) hanging at the Milwaukee Art Museum's Early European Gallery was attacked by a person described as having a history of mental illness.